Clogyrnach

You might have noticed I'm putting a lot of my favourite forms up here first   I love these things.

The clogyrnach is a Welsh six-line stanza form -- it can either be a single stanza poem or you can join them together to make something much longer.  

There are only two rhymes per stanza (though if you're making a longer poem, you can change rhymes as long as it's the same pattern).  The lines have a syllable count of 8-8-5-5-3-3, and the rhyme scheme is a-a-b-b-b-a -- technically, it looks like this:

x x x x x x a

x x x x x x a

x x x x b

x x x x b

x x b

x x a

If you want to, you can actually join the last two lines together to make one six-syllable line, but it's important to keep the rhymes in the same place, so if you do that your last line will have the b rhyme in the middle:

 x x x x x x a

x x x x x x a

x x x x b

x x x x b

x x b x x a

Personally I like the effect of the two short lines to end, but it's purely an individual choice. 

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The Southern Cross will guide you home
To eucalypts in sacred foam
Bright coral crowns and
Soft shell-strewn white sand
Silent land
Wrapped in foam 

(from Odd Verse Effects)