The Ya-Du is a Burmese form of poetry. It’s rules are fairly complicated. I have written one using a few U words. I don’t know why I attempted this today. Not even sure I used my words correctly. But here we go:
Ya-Du have 5 line stanzas - there should not be more than three stanzas. The first four lines have 4 syllables each, and the last line can have 5, 7, 9 or 11 syllables. I did one stanza. That was enough.
There is a climbing rhyme in syllables 4, 3 and 2 of both the first 3 lines and the last 3 lines e.g. in the first stanza. The last two lines rhyme in somewhat of a conventional way. There should be references to the seasons. I marked the rhyming scheme with words that rhyme in the same color, so you can check the work...
Umbratic tree
shadows me in
Upsy usance.
I’ll twirl prancing
A dance uprist from under tree’s wing
Thank you to The Phrontistery for providing lots and lots of lesser used words!
upsy - in the manner of; thoroughly
umbratic - shadowy; providing shade
uprist - rising; uprising
usance - habit; custom
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Yeah, that's a very complicated poem type. Good job.
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