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Introduction.
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and the stress vowels rhyming throughout the rann.
In all the other stanzas the lines have five stresses,
and the second and third, or second and fourth, stressed
vowels rhyme in each line.
(62) P. 237:
Tha mulad, tha mulad, tha mulad ’gam lionadh.
Each line has four stresses. The second and third
stressed syllables assonate, and the final rhyme is on i
(aoi, ao). In 6326 the rhyme requires foill for feall.
(63) P. 242:
’S mi suidhe an so ’m 6nar air cdmhnard an rdthaid.
Similar to the above (p. 237); the final rhyme is on d
throughout.
AMHBAN OR ORAN.
(64) P. 45:
0 mbsglamaid gu suilbhir kit le sunndachd ghksda
is eireamaid.
There are six stresses in each long line, and the final
stress is ante-penultimate. The third and fifth stressed
vowels rhyme in each line; the final stressed vowels
rhyme throughout the stanza. In 1213, 1214, the rhyme
is suthain; bhruthainn: there is no proper rhyme in
1215, 1216, where neimh: fiat should rhyme.
(65) P. 50:
Cha dirich mi bruthach ’s cha siubhail mi
mointeach.
Each long line has four stresses. The second and third
stressed vowels rhyme in each line, except 1391-2,
aigne: furtaich; 1407-8 cuideachd: thaghainn; the first
three lines have the same end-rhyme, but the last line
is independent, and has its final stress ultimate, while