CYWYDD Definition & Meaning

cywydd

[ kuh-with ]

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noun

Prosody.

a form of meter in Welsh poetry consisting of rhyming couplets, each line having seven syllables: first used in the 14th century.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of cywydd¹

1950–55; < Welsh; Old Welsh couid song, metrical composition; cognate with Old Irish cubaid harmonious, rhyming

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His poems were almost all written in the cywydd form: a short ode not divided into stanzas, each line having the same number of syllables.

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The masterpiece of Buchanan is his La Breitheanas or Day of Judgment, which is equal in merit, or nearly so, to the Cywydd y Farn or Judgment Day of your own immortal Gronwy Owen.

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All his pieces are excellent, but his masterwork is decidedly the “Cywydd y Farn” or “Day of Judgment.”

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Each particular species of englyn, cywydd, and awdl has its appropriate name, which it is needless to give here.

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All his pieces are excellent, but his master-work is decidedly the Cywydd y Farn, or Day of Judgment.

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