Do any of the WOL poets know what a Habbie Stanza is?

That's a very funny question for 3 am on a Friday night Peter. ;-) I've never heard of it! Chris is very efficient!

I take my poetry very seriously. These are the sort of questions that keep me awake at night. I was sticking to forum rules of no drunk posting (I rarely touch the stuff)but of course I should have just went for wiki or googled it. I had heard the name but couldn't remember much about it.

The Habbie Stanza is an aaabab format poem, used by the Weaver poets of Scotland and in the North of Ireland around the time of Robert Burns.

Irish writers of the Ulster Scots tradition who used it include Samuel Fergusson, William Orr and others.

It is not much used anymore (if you discount myself!).

A humersome poem written in the syle by me is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dMEcVkY3rU