Explore the Craft of Writing Poetry Welsh Verse Features of the Welsh Meters Welsh Codified Divisions
Englyn byr cwca is a shortened crooked rhyme and is not one of the 24 Official Welsh Meters.
The elements of the Englyn bry cwca are:
stanzaic, written in any number of tercets.
syllabic, 7-10-6 syllable lines.
rhymed, rhyme scheme aba, cdc, etc. The L2 end rhyme appears internally midway in L3.
x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x x x b
x x b x x a
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