This was probably the hardest poem to write so far! So many rules! I think I got almost all of them except maybe the rule about the final sound…

Together

Once upon a bright world blue

You and me were shining stars

Hoping I could soon see you

Feeling locked up behind bars

©2024 CBialczak

Here are the guidelines for the rannaigheact mhor:

• Quatrain with an abab rhyme scheme, including consonant end sounds
• Heptasyllabic lines, or 7 syllables per line
• At least 2 cross-rhymes in each couplet of each quatrain
• Final word of line 3 rhymes with interior of line 4
• At least 2 words alliterate in each line
• Final word of line 4 alliterates with preceding stressed word
• Final sound of poem echoes first sound of poem (common for Irish forms)