Type: structure, meter, rhyme, stanzaic.
Description: Pronounced ‘owdl gow-wi-ed’. Seven syllable quatrains with end rhymes and couplet binding. Welsh origin.
Schema:
xxxxxxa
xxaxxxb (a can be 3rd or 4th syllable)
xxxxxxc
xxcxxxb (c can be 3rd or 4th syllable)
Mid-line rhymes a and c can be various forms of rhyme but the end of line rhyme b should be perfect rhyme.
Stanza Length: quatrain.
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Very helpful, although: 'Pronounced ‘owdl gow-widd’' - I don't know whether people who don't speak Welsh will read the double d properly.
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Ach dde , ddiolch 'ch , Chyfnewida a
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Heh. I do speak quite good Welsh, by the way
Mine's all 'proper', though, and doesn't sound natural at all.
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Any guidance on meter?
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All that I have found is iambic, with an acephalexis on the first foot of each line or podic lines with 2/3 stressed syllables. Whether that is the meter I don't know for sure, I am checking it out with Academi. I will update as and when I know.
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