SheFallsSoftly

Oh god. This is gonna suck. A Ya- Du is a Burmese form of poetry which consists of up to three stanzas of five lines. The first four lines of a stanza have four syllables each, but the fifth line can have 5, 7, 9 , or 11 syllables.

The form uses climbing rhyme. The rhyme is required on the fourth, third, and second syllables of both the first three lines and the last three lines.
e.g.:

—A
–A-
-A-B
–B-
-B—

My body’s numb.
Muscles dumb, hands
all thumb; no grace.
I may race to
Disgrace of my skin.

That sounds so stupid I’m not even going to do another stanza.

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