cywydd

[ kuh-with ]

noun

, Prosody.

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of cywydd¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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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