Englyn (plural englynion) is a traditional Welsh and Cornish short poem form. It uses quantitative metres, involving the counting of syllables, and rigid patterns of rhyme and half rhyme. Each line contains a repeating pattern of consonants and accent known as cynghanedd. == Types of englynion== There are a number of types of englynion. Details of...
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a group of strict Welsh poetic metres. The most popular form is the englyn unodl union (`direct monorhyme englyn`), which is a combination of a ...
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A group of certain Welsh tercets and quatrains written in strict Welsh meters including monorhyme an
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Poem of Welsh Celtic origin. There are 8 separate englyn forms including the cyrch, the milwr, the unodl union, the unodl crwc, the proest dalgon, the lleddfbroest, the proest gadwynog and the penfyr. The example below is a 30 syllable englyn arranged in lines of 10, 6, 7 and 7 - where the rhyme scheme is announced by the sixth syllable of the firs...
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