All in Séadna

Everlast

I wrote this poem in the Irish Séadna form. It’s form appears simple but is quite complicated: Two quatrain stanzas of alternating octosyllabic lines with disyllabic endings and heptasyllabic lines with monosyllabic endings. Lines two and four rhyme, line three rhymes with the stressed word preceding the final word of line four. The last syllable of the first line alliterates with the first stressed word of the second line for each quatrain. There are two aicill rhymes in the second couplet of each quatrain. There is alliteration in every single line of the poem. The final word of line four alliterates with the preceding stressed word of the same line in each respective quatrain. Finally, the last syllable of line one alliterates with the first stressed word of line two, also in both quatrains.