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Cyhydedd Naw Ban, cuh-hée-dedd naw ban, is the 17th codified ancient Welsh Meter, an Awdl merter. Poems using this meter often have lengthy sequences of couplets without change of rhyme.
The elements of the Cyhydedd Naw Ban are:
written in any number of rhymed couplet.
made up of 9 syllable lines.
rhymed, aa etc.
x x x x x x x x A
x x x x x x x x A