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Freislighe is an Irish stanza form with syllable counting . Their complex systems of rhymes , alliterations and assonances cannot be precisely translated into German.

Put simply, the Freislighe (read: Freschlíh) always consists of four-line characters with seven syllables each . Lines 1 and 3 end in three-syllable rhymes ; lines 2 and rhyme 4 with two-syllable rhymes. The entire poem (not the individual stanza ) should also end with the same first syllable (or the same word or part of a sentence) that it started with. The technical term for this circular ending is "dunadh". A principle that recurs in all Gaelic stanzas.

The rhyme and syllable scheme looks like this:

xxxx (aaa)
xxxxx (bb)
xxxx (aaa)
xxxxx (bb)

literature

  • Lewis Turco: The Book of Forms. A Handbook of Poetics. UPNE, Hanover et al. a. 2000, ISBN 1-58465-041-9 , pp. 122f.