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FORMS OF CYNGHANEDD The examples below are from the poem '' Cywydd y Cedor '', by the fourteenth-century bard Gwerful Mechain . The caesuras are marked with slashes ("/") and rhyming parts are marked in bold. Note that Dd, Ll and Ch are counted as single consonants in the Welsh Alphabet . Cynghanedd groes ("cross-harmony") All consonants which appear in the line before the Caesura must be repeated after it, in the same order. For example: clawdd i ddal / cal ddwy ddwylaw CL Dd Dd L / C L Dd Dd L Cynghanedd draws (also "cross-harmony") Like cynghanedd groes, except only some of the consonants are repeated. For example: dabl y gerdd / a'i dwbl o goch D BL G RDd D BL G Ch Cynghanedd sain ("sound-harmony") The line has two caesuras, and thus has three parts. The first and second parts Rhyme ; the consonants of the second part are repeated in the third part. For example: pant yw hwy / na llwy / na llaw / N Ll / N Ll Cynghanedd lusg ("drag-harmony") The first accented syllable in the line rhymes with the second-to-last syllable of the line. For example: duw er ei radd / a'i addef,, BIBLIOGRAPHY
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