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Introduction.
between the second and fourth stressed syllables, the
final stress being penultimate, and the final stressed
syllable rhyming with the second stressed syllabi© of
the last line. Cf. the third line of John MacCodrum’s
poem, p. 68.
(71) P. 149:
’8 i so ’n aimsir a dhearbhar an tkirgneachd dhxiinn.
Each long line has four stresses. The second and third
stressed syllables assonate; in the last line always, and
in the other lines often, the first, second, and third
stressed syllables assonate. The final stressed syllables
rhyme throughout the stanza. Scheme of first rann : —
— a a a u
— e 4 & u
-— — eirg airg eirbh u
(72) P. 155:
Air teachd o’n Spain do shllochd an Ghdoidhil
ghlais.
The heroic rhymed couplet of Pope and Dryden.
(73) P. 213: An cuala sibhse an ttonndadh duineil.
Amhran, with three stresses in each line. The first
stressed vowel is indefinite; the second was meant to
rhyme in the four lines of each rann, but the purpose is
very incompletely fulfilled; the third rhymes through¬
out each rann. Scheme of the first rann: —
(—) i — a — i —
u — a i —
a a i —
u — a — i —
The best quatrains are Nos. 2, 3, 4, 8; the most
imperfect are Nos. 7, 10, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21.