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- noun prosody The complex system of internal
assonance ,alliteration andrhyme in Welsh strict-metre poetry.
Etymologies
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They are all written in cynghanedd (the concept of sound-arrangement within one line, using stress, alliteration and rhyme) of varying degrees of complexity.
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They are all written in cynghanedd (the concept of sound-arrangement within one line, using stress, alliteration and rhyme) of varying degrees of complexity.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Many of them are written in a strict metrical form called cynghanedd brief description here, a challenging poetry form of incredible beauty.
The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Farmer, Poet, Soldier a. fortis 2008
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Many of them are written in a strict metrical form called cynghanedd brief description here, a challenging poetry form of incredible beauty.
Archive 2008-05-01 tanita davis 2008
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The skills associated with Welsh poetry - the composition of the fiendishly tricky verse metre known as cynghanedd, which means harmony - slid into abeyance after the Norman occupation and Henry VIII's Act of Union.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The skills associated with Welsh poetry - the composition of the fiendishly tricky verse metre known as cynghanedd, which means harmony - slid into abeyance after the Norman occupation and Henry VIII's Act of Union.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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A prolific poet, he was recognised as a master of the craft of cynghanedd, the strict metre of Welsh poetry.
Poetic Obituaries: [Archdruid Dic] Jones won the National Eisteddfod Rus Bowden 2009
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A prolific poet, he was recognised as a master of the craft of cynghanedd, the strict metre of Welsh poetry.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Poetic Obituaries: Dic Jones's mastery of cynghanedd, the uniquely Welsh verse form that uses sequenced patterns of alliteration and rhyme to embody and reinforce meaning, ensured that his poems, whether in epigrammatic, elegiac or comic vein, spoke with resonance to all, from the labourer in the field to the lecturer in the library.
Archive 2009-09-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Poetic Obituaries: Dic Jones's mastery of cynghanedd, the uniquely Welsh verse form that uses sequenced patterns of alliteration and rhyme to embody and reinforce meaning, ensured that his poems, whether in epigrammatic, elegiac or comic vein, spoke with resonance to all, from the labourer in the field to the lecturer in the library.
Poetic Obituaries: [Dic] Jones's mastery of cynghanedd, Rus Bowden 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word cynghanedd
Billet spied,
Bolt sped.
Across field
Crows fled,
Aloft, wounded,
Left one dead.
--Robert Graves
September 1, 2011
bilby commented on the word cynghanedd
No, Bolt was disqualified for a false start.
September 1, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word cynghanedd
Um, I think you're thinking of Boult.
September 1, 2011
biocon commented on the word cynghanedd
Thanks ruzuzu for invoking in me an interest in the works of Robert Graves.
September 2, 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word cynghanedd
Oh! I'm glad you like it. I've heard there are criticisms of his scholarship (especially when it comes to some of the stuff in The White Goddess), but I grew up with his work, so there are still lines that get stuck in my head. My father likes to recite the bit about the "fearsome-faced" goddess of destiny who makes a "snarling noise" with her chops--to which I usually reply with a bit from the jackal's address to Isis. (I'm sure that's all very entertaining for everyone when we get together for the holidays.)
September 3, 2011