Resignation

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The gwawdodyn is a Welsh poetic form with a couple variations. However, both versions are comprised of quatrains (4-line stanzas) that have a 9/9/10/9 syllable pattern and matching end rhymes on lines 1, 2, and 4. The variations are made in that third line:
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Summer is spiraling to a nub
of dry grasses and stumpy shrub
marigold heads brown, spilling seeds on ground
resigned to winter’s coldhearted snub.