Rhupunt

Note: In an effort to get as many forms in here as we can before April, we’re going to get a streamlined entry going here. Check back in later for more elaborate posts, including history etc.

The Rhupunt (pronounced hree’-pint) is a Welsh poetry form, of the AwdlAn awdl was originally a poem of indeterminate length with a single end rhyme throughout, in a single meter. In the 12th century, The Poets of the Princes treated this iteration of the awdl as a poem in its own right, but by that time it was becoming more common for it to consist as one part of a larger... More class of stanzaic forms

Structure:

• each stanza may have three, four, or five lines
• each line has four syllables
• within each stanza, all lines, with the exception of the last, share a single end rhyme
• all of the last lines share a secondary end rhyme-the last line carries the rhyme from stanza to stanza
• there’s a variation known as the long rhupuntNote: In an effort to get as many forms in here as we can before April, we're going to get a streamlined entry going here. Check back in later for more elaborate posts, including history etc. The Rhupunt (pronounced hree’-pint) is a Welsh poetry form, of the Awdl class of stanzaic forms Structure: • each stanza may have three, four, or five lines... More, each stanza is written as a single line, and the lines are paired in couplets
• an example of the long RhupuntNote: In an effort to get as many forms in here as we can before April, we're going to get a streamlined entry going here. Check back in later for more elaborate posts, including history etc. The Rhupunt (pronounced hree’-pint) is a Welsh poetry form, of the Awdl class of stanzaic forms Structure: • each stanza may have three, four, or five lines... More would be
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• the long RhupuntNote: In an effort to get as many forms in here as we can before April, we're going to get a streamlined entry going here. Check back in later for more elaborate posts, including history etc. The Rhupunt (pronounced hree’-pint) is a Welsh poetry form, of the Awdl class of stanzaic forms Structure: • each stanza may have three, four, or five lines... More holds the structure in every other way as the RhupuntNote: In an effort to get as many forms in here as we can before April, we're going to get a streamlined entry going here. Check back in later for more elaborate posts, including history etc. The Rhupunt (pronounced hree’-pint) is a Welsh poetry form, of the Awdl class of stanzaic forms Structure: • each stanza may have three, four, or five lines... More, you just put the lines all together into one. All the, lets call them sublines, have the same syllable count, the rhyme scheme above, and secondary rhyme. Therefor in one couplet, there can be a long line that is longer than the other. Etc.
• In Welsh poetry, the awdlAn awdl was originally a poem of indeterminate length with a single end rhyme throughout, in a single meter. In the 12th century, The Poets of the Princes treated this iteration of the awdl as a poem in its own right, but by that time it was becoming more common for it to consist as one part of a larger... More meter conforms to the cynhaneddMerriam Webster defines Cyndhanedd (pronounced kung-han-eth) as "a strict intricate system of alliteration and rhyme used in Welsh poetry." It was developed by the 14th century and codified in the Caerwys Eisteddfod (Assembly of Bards) of 1523. In Welsh poetry, it's an elaborate system of sound relationships involving accent, alliteration and internal rhyme, and comes in four basic types. Cyndhanedd lusg... More (click to see glossary term): rules of harmony governing consonance or alliteration. Translating Welsh meter rules into English is almost impossible, but trying to get as close as you can when writing a Welsh form is usually best practice.