cynghaneddArticle Free Pass cynghanedd, ( Welsh: “harmony”)
Welsh poetic device. It is a complicated system of alliteration
and internal rhyme, obligatory in the 24 strict metres of Welsh
bardic verse. Cynghanedd had developed by the 13th century from
the prosodic devices of the early bards and was formally
codified at the Caerwys Eisteddfod (Assembly of Bards) of 1523.
The device became an obligatory adornment of poems in the strict
(classical bardic) metres. There are four fundamental types of
cynghanedd, but within these there are a number of refinements
and variations. When skillfully used, cynghanedd is capable of
conveying an almost unlimited variety of subtle effects. What
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