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Ivi.
Introduction
A four-stress poem, in which the second and third
stressed vowels rhyme in each line, while the final
stressed vowels rhyme throughout the rann. In form
and in spirit it is rather amhran than cumha. The final
line of each rann is repeated as the first line of the next
rann. This may be regarded as an extension of con -
chlann, ‘ a grasp,’ a term used to denote the repetition
of the final word of a rann, as the first word of the next.
Scheme of the first rann: —
ui u — — u i —
ua ao — ao a —
— i —v — ao — iu a —
(61) P. 201:
’S i so torram na trvt&ighc tha ’san u&ir so ’go
h-eigheach.
A four-stress iorram-cumha. In the first rann the lines
are of four stresses, the first stressed vowel being
indefinite, the second and third rhyming in each line,
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 mvdad, tha mulad, tha mulad ’gam Uonadh.
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. 241:
’S mi suidhe an so ’m onar air c&mhnard an
rdthaid.
Similar to the above (p. 237) ; the final rhyme is on a
throughout.