I Can And I Will! ! Poem by ivor or ivor.e hogg

Welsh Bardic form

Written in heptasyllabic (7 syllable) Quatrains

Line three cross rhymes with the central syllables of line four.
Lines one, two and four carry the main Rhyme

Rhyme pattern
XXXXXXa
XXXXXXa
XXXXXXb
XXXXbXa

Example

There is no way I can know
Trials I must undergo.
This must be hidden from me
Lest I should be laid down low.

And see time as my mortal foe.
It is mete I should not know.
A mans future has to be
a deep mystery and so.

It was decreed long ago
No man is allowed to know
what his fate will come to be
in dire jeopardy or no.

The years will pass quick or slow.
Troubles come and troubles go
Insofar as I can see
Nobody is free to know.

I need no one to tell me so
We go where we have to go
Until we eventually
are allowed to see and know.

20-Dec-08
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