Poem written for Coronation

Poem for TRM Kenric and Avelina and TRH Savaric and Julianna of the Midrealm. Presented to each at the Coronation of TRM Kenric and Avelina. 

A vision grows in verdant souls,

Asunder rend the roles of old.

Honor Kenric, our agile King,

keen his wisdom. He brings to bear

the brightest hopes of tiger’s heart:

Behold the start of woven wyrd.

Entwining titans; the weft is laid --

lashing of blades - by Dragon liege,

leader and knight of mighty land.

By ladies’ hands these legends swear.

This solemn oath on heroes’ souls -- 

asunder rends the roles of old.

Geeky poetry details: This is based on transitional era of Irish poetry. In the earliest Irish poetry, the structure is (basically) a line with a pause (caesura) in the middle-ish. It is stress-driven, and, the stress pattern after that pause is the same in every line. A multisyllabic word cannot cross that line boundary. The lines contain alliteration, often used to link the last stressed beat of one line with the first stressed beat of the next.

Later Irish poetry becomes syllable based (Latin influenced) and has very strict forms and rules. But nearly all the individual elements in the later strict forms show up during the transitional period as chosen types of ornamentation. Such ornamentation includes alliteration, consonance, assonance, and rhyme. 

So... I've started layering that back in. The rules for myself for this poem were as follows:

1. Follow the early Irish rules first (alliteration in the line, alliteration between last & first syllable, identical beat pattern after the caesura.)

2. Each line should include assonance between two words. ("Grows" and "souls" "knight" and mighty".)

3. Internal rhyme. (The last word of an odd-numbered line rhymes with a middle word in the next even line -- "souls" & "roles," or "heart" and "start." I would have been willing to use near-rhyme, but, I have a harder time thinking of near rhymes.) 

4. Alliteration and assonance only count on stressed syllables.