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===Burns stanza=== | ===Burns stanza=== | ||
A variant of the Burns stanza is another traditional Hlou meter. | A variant of the Burns stanza is another traditional Hlou meter. | ||
<poem> | <poem> | ||
'' | ''Tlad Hei drlah Mbauß,'' | ||
'' | ''Xan schnuh zied nraug,'' | ||
'' | ''Xob Ndzäu beis schraus –'' | ||
'' | ''Jed Vug –'' | ||
''Ngiß tsahn | ''Ngiß tsahn we Jaud'' | ||
'' | ''schrieb mbug.'' | ||
</poem> | </poem> | ||
<poem> | |||
Though [your] body must [become] soil, | |||
I touch you up close, | |||
The warm embrace nurturing | |||
[The] leaf [of] knowledge; | |||
A garden growing in [our] midst, | |||
[which will] last forever. | |||
</poem> | |||
===Holorime=== | ===Holorime=== | ||
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