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Introduction.
Here the long lines contain seven syllables. In the
first three phrases the syllables that bear the first
stress rhyme with each other, as do also the syllables
that bear the second stress. There is aichill between
the third and fourth phrases.
(33) Compare p. 63, Is duilich learn an cdradh.
The scheme of such poems may be given compendiously
as
3 (Is duilich leam an cdradh) ’s a’ Bhrdigh so thall,
and described, in this case, as a double-stressed d-phrase
thrice repeated, with its final stress penultimate,
followed by a double-stressed d-phrase with final stress
ultimate. The last stressed vowel of the strophe
rhymes with the corresponding vowel of the following
fifteen strophes, which are therefore all d-strophes.
(34) P. 40, Fhuair mi naidheachd ro-mhaith leam,.
is very similar.
Ochtfhoclach mor corranach is a sixteen-line variety
of the above. It is represented in
(35) P. 76, Beir mo shoraidh le durachd.
Here the final stressed syllables of the first four
strophes rhyme together, the four strophes thus
forming a rann, each line of which is a strophe.
Ochtfhoclach beag is of the form (3x52)+ 41- It
also has a corranach form of sixteen lines or four
strophes, represented in modern poetry by
(36) P.14:
Gu bheil mi am dnrachd ’s a choille ghruamaich
mo chridhe Iwaineach cha tog mi fonn.
This is cumha. The metre is that of Duncan
Macintyre’s Coire Cheathaich. The rann consists of