Cywydd
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Cywydd, one of the three classes of traditional Welsh poetic metre (the other two being awdl and englyn), refers to the construction of heptasyllabic couplets with alternating masculine and feminine endings[1]. It was the favourite metre of the Poets of the Nobility, popularised by Dafydd ap Gwilym. It is one of the twenty four traditional Welsh poetic metres.
Cywydd consists of a series of seven-syllabled lines in rhyming couplets, with all lines written in cynghanedd. One of the lines must finish with a stressed syllable, while the other must finish with an unstressed syllable. The rhyme may vary from couplet to couplet, or may remain the same. There is no rule about how many couplets there must be in a cywydd.
[edit] References
- ^ Lloyd, D. Myrddin, and T.V.F. Brogan. "Cywydd." The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Edited by Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993. 265.
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