cywydd

American  

[kuh-with] / ˈkʌ wɪð /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of cywydd

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

Example Sentences

Of the englyn, there are five kinds; of the cywydd, four; and of the awdl, fifteen. 

From The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition by Borrow, George Henry

By Dafydd ab Gwilym. far the greater part of his poetry is written in the metre called cywydd, with heptasyllabic lines rhyming in couplets.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Among the most famous of his works is a cywydd “begging for a fishing-net,” and another giving thanks for the same.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Here the age of the cywydd and the awdl, as the chief forms of verse, ends.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various