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How Do I Love Thee...  by fileg 1 Review(s)
ChiggerReviewed Chapter: 2 on 1/29/2004
Very romantic, Thengel. :) But I really must agree with him; there is no sound so lovely as the scraping-ring of a sword unsheathed. That even beats the sound of a single action .45 being cocked. :)

I just have one question (besides what the heck is a cywydd llosgyrnog O_o). How do you DO that? Gosh, if I could rhyme like that, I'd be having a ball! But no, I'll just have to content myself with reading yours. :)

Author Reply: I love that sound too, as I guess you could tell. very full of purpose!

On the writing page of my website, there is a short guide to some of the interlocked verse forms I have been using. Go to http://www.gryphonsmith.com/fileg/tay/taypage.html,
and click down to the poems, and you will find the link.

A Cywydd Llosgrynog is one of the traditional forms of Welsh Bardic verse - this is just an approximation, because there are paired sounds in Welsh that we don't have in English - but I followed the very strict structure of where the syllables have to rhyme. The end of the line rhymes are not hard, but the repeating rhyme that has to fall exactly on the third syllable of the third lines can make you pull your hair out.

The Cywydd Llosgyrnog is pronounced (approximately) cuh-with lo-seer-nock and that started me thinking about Morwen of Lossarnach


Take a look at the instructions for the interlocked poetry, and give it a try. I will be glad to answer questions if you need me!


All I can tell you about how I do it is that I need the idea before the words. If I know what I want to say, I have a goal. Sometimes I write just to put words together, like a big party, and I learn a lot, but I seldom get a *finished* result.

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