cywydd
/kuh-with/US // ˈkʌ wɪð //
Cywydd
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
Prosody.
- : a form of meter in Welsh poetry consisting of rhyming couplets, each line having seven syllables: first used in the 14th century.
Examples
Among the most famous of his works is a cywydd “begging for a fishing-net,” and another giving thanks for the same.
Each particular species of englyn, cywydd, and awdl has its appropriate name, which it is needless to give here.
Here the age of the cywydd and the awdl, as the chief forms of verse, ends.
Of the englyn, there are five kinds; of the cywydd, four; and of the awdl, fifteen.
Al. “Cywydd,” his song; though this word derived from cy and gwydd, may likewise have the same meaning as the former.
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