Explore the Craft of Writing Poetry Welsh Verse Features of the Welsh Meters Welsh Codified Divisions
Cyhydedd Hir, cuh-hée-dedd heer (long cyhydedd), the 18th codified ancient Welsh Meters an Awdl, is most often written as a couplet following other metered couplets within a stanza.
The elements of the Cyhydedd Hir are:
written in any number of single lines made up of 19 syllables divided into 3 rhymed 5 syllable phrases and ending in a 4 syllable phrase carrying a linking rhyme to the next line.
or could be written as a couplet of a 10 syllable line and a 9 syllable line