Explore the Craft of Writing Poetry Welsh Verse Features of the Welsh Meters Welsh Codified Divisions
Hir a thoddaid, heer-ah-thódd-eyed (long stanza with toddaid), the 22nd codified Official Welsh Meter is the most commonly written awdl meter of modern time. The National Eisteddfod, as of only a few years ago, offered an annual prize for the poem written in this meter. (It also must be in written in Welsh.) The theme is usually a memorial, a eulogy.
The elements of the Hir a thoddaid are:
stanzaic, written in any number of sixains made up of a mono-rhymed quatrain followed by