Brixtu.

Brixtu is an octosyllabic meter. This form utilises alliteration, and Trochaic and Dactylics. It can be any number of lines, but eight would fit well. It can be constructed in any way that works, so long as it uses the mentioned techniques. An example follows:

Huntress under the starry sky

Swift shooting faster than thought

Seeking scoundrel sacrifices

Tetractys.

The Tetractys poetry style was developed by Ray Stebbing as an answer to the haiku. However, Diodorus Siculus and other Greek and Romans stated that Pythagoreanism was important to the Druids (and Gauls as a whole). While this style of poetry would not have been used historically (it is a modern invention), it could be revived for praise poetry use today.

The poetry form as laid out by Stebbing was lines of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 10 syllables. This form could be used, or another form, containing lines of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 10 stressed syllables, employing alliteration and Trochaic and Dactylic meters (1 stressed and 1 unstressed syllable and 1 stressed and 2 unstressed syllables, respectively). These were used commonly in Gaulish metrical texts.

An example of Stebbings style follows:

Vine

Roots long

Reaching deep

Seeking water

Water found. Rise, form, riches of dubnos

An example of Galatis style follows:

Sunshine

Glowing brightly

Life lifting leisurely

Warming waters flowing fast

Spring has sprung, horned god harries prey, battles at borders

Galatis style.

This style is based on evidence for metrical forms preferred by the Gauls (as seen in West’s book ‘Indo-European Poetry and Myth). This style uses three lines, with alliteration and Trochaic or Dactylics dimeters. An example below shows the alliteration in bold, and the italics are the stressed syllables.

Weaving worship

Poetry praise

Dêuoi devotion

Sulabaros Tritanuos/three-tongued eloquence.

This is a modern form, created by Iessinila Nertocaria. It has three lines, with the last word of each line rhyming with the first line of the next and the last word rhyming with the first word. Articles are ignored for the rhyme scheme. Its form appears like this:

A-B

B-C

C-A

An example of this form follows:

Chasing clouds,

Shrouds the shining sun,

Son of light embracing.