Aes Freislighe

Just to show that it's not all about easy end rhymes

The Irish verse forms are far trickier than anything in English traditions.  I've heard it said that the Celts and French put so much time into perfecting their poetry it's no wonder the English snuck up behind them and took over the world.  Of course, that was said by an Englishman...

The Aes Freislighe (pronounced "ayez freshly", more or less) is a kind of stanza most often used in chains to form quite long poems. Each line is seven syllables with lines one and three ending in triple rhymes and two and four with double. Another requirement is that the poem end as it began, either with the first syllable, word, phrase, or line.

Technically, it looks like this:

xxxx(xxa)
xxxxx(xb)
xxxx(xxa)
xxxxx(xb)

or, a simple example:

Really in rhyme writing you
Need to let it flow freely
Words should be exciting you
This is creation, really