Gwawdodyn Hir
Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement,
Stanzaic | |
Description: | | (gwow DOD in heer) A syllabic form that can go in two ways.
Either way it consists of a syllabic sestet where all lines except the fifth are nine syllables and monorhymed. The fifth line is ten syllables and has a
separate rhyme that may be internal (fifth and tenth syllable) or cross-rhymed with the sixth line (seventh through the ninth syllable of fifth line
cross-rhymes with third through the fifth in sixth line). | |
Origin: | | Welsh | |
Schematic: | | xxxxxxxxa
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or
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xxxxxxbxxx (Syllable 7 to 9)
Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 6 | |
See Also: | | Gwawdodyns, Hir a Thoddaid, Sestet, Syllabic
Verse | |
Status: | | Incomplete | |
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