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Cywydd, or Cywydd deuair hirion, is one of the important, if not the most important, metrical elements in Welsh traditional poetry. It was the favourite meter of the Poets of the Nobility, the poets working from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and it is still used today. It is one of the twenty four traditional Welsh poetic meters.
Cywydd consists of a series of seven-syllabled lines in rhyming couplets, with all lines written in cynghanedd. One of the lines must finish with a stressed syllable, while the other must finish with an unstressed syllable. The rhyme may vary from couplet to couplet, or may remain the same. There is no rule about how many couplets there must be in a cywydd.
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