Ya-Du
Ya-Du -Sounds of Night
A Burmeses form, similar to the Than Bauk, the Ya-Du form will always have some reference to nature. (Mother nature, not human nature). Most Ya-Du will have only one verse and never have more than three verses.
Each verse will have five lines. The first three will contain a descending rhyme with the last two lines as a rhyming couplet with an internal rhyme.
The first four lines have four syllables in each line. The last or fifth line, which will rhyme with the fourth line, will have five, seven, nine or eleven syllables.
Lines one, two and three have rhyming syllables at four, three and two respectively. Lines three four and five also follow the pattern of the first three but also add an end rhyme to lines four and five.
The following schematic view will give greater clarity as to the layout and rhyme scheme:
Line 1: x x x A
Line 2: x x A x
Line 3: x A x B
Line 4: x x B C
Line 5: x B x x x x x x x x C or: x B x x x x x x C
or: x B x x x x C or: x B x x C.
Where x,A,B and C are syllables and A,B and C are the rhyming syllables.
Ya-Du example:
Sounds of Night
Wolves haunting cry,
soft winds sigh as
bats fly by sound.
Crickets drowned out
by stout drinking men, mucking about!