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  Englyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Englyn (plural englynion) is a traditional Welsh short poem form.
This is identical to the englyn proest dalgron except that the half rhymes must use the ae, oe, wy, and ei diphthongs.
The novelist Robertson Davies once said that englyns were an old enthusiasm of his.
www.tocatch.info /en/Englyn.htm   (539 words)

  
 Guide to Verse Forms - Englyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The englyn is a Welsh verse form, and a difficult one.
I believe I have written a perfectly-formed englyn, but it is hard to be certain, since the requirements are so complicated.
The englyn above appears to be an englyn unodl union.
www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com /vf/englyn.htm   (345 words)

  
 Englyn plural englynion is a traditional Welsh Welsh short poem...
Englyn plural englynion is a traditional Welsh Welsh short poem...
It uses quantitative quantitative metre metres, involving the counting of syllable syllables, and rigid patterns of rhyme rhyme and half rhyme half rhyme.
This is identical to the englyn proest dalgron except that the half rhymes must use the ae, oe, wy, and ei diphthongs diphthongs.
www.biodatabase.de /Englyn   (390 words)

  
 Bardic Circle - Englyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The englyn (eng’-lin; pl. englynion) is one of the three classes of Welsh poetry, along with the cywydd (DS-Summer 2001) and the awdl.
The rhyme in the first line is placed 1-3 syllables from the end of the line, and the end-word must alliterate with the first few syllables of the second line.
The englyn unodl crwca (eng-LIN een-OHDEL crook-AH,“crooked one-rhymed” englyn) differs from the englyn unodl union only in that the syllable count per line is 7, 7, 10 and 6.
www.courtofthefey.com /courtofthefey/library/poetry/englyn.shtml   (273 words)

  
 Llyfrgell Owen Phrasebank - englyn
Aeth un i'r drafferth i lunio englyn cain iawn yn arbennig i'r llyfr.
Y mae David Ellis ei hunan mewn dau englyn ac un llythyr yn cyfeirio at dri bachgen hoff o'r ardal a fu farw yn y Rhyfel - tair addewid a dorrwyd.
Gwnâi ambell englyn a chân hefyd i foddio ei hun.
www.testunau.org /mynegair/e/englyn.htm   (644 words)

  
 Poetry Forms
The Englyn Milwr is toted as the soldier's Englyn, for it was usually set to a war theme.
The Englyn Milwr is simple to construct, with each stanza consisting of three lines of seven syllables each.
It is not a true Englyn Milwr in the strict sense, for it is not about a physical battle fought by an actual soldier.
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 Canu Llywarch Hen
In early Welsh texts this is actually a well-known phenomenon and the same interspersion of prose and Englyn is found in the Mabinogi of Math fab Mathonwy.
The Cymric englyn is a very strict opetic form with consonantal or rhyming correspondences between each line of verse as well as between the lines in the triads themselves.
In addition to the traditional poems I also include an englyn that relates to one of Llywarch's sons, Kyni and which somehow found its way into the Llyfr Aneirin.
www.celtnet.org.uk /ancient_books/canu_llywarch_hen.html   (1182 words)

  
 Glossary Poetic Terms E
There are 8 separate englyn forms including the cyrch, the milwr, the unodl union, the unodl crwc, the proest dalgon, the lleddfbroest, the proest gadwynog and the penfyr.
The example below is a 30 syllable englyn arranged in lines of 10, 6, 7 and 7 - where the rhyme scheme is announced by the sixth syllable of the first line:
Englyn also employ an alliterative, internal rhyme scheme known as a cynghanedd.
www.poetsgraves.co.uk /glossary_poetic_terms_e.htm   (619 words)

  
 2006 Gorffennaf at Blog Dogfael   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Englyn gan y Prifardd HME ar achlysur cyhoeddi ‘Dim ond deud’
Dyma englyn gan y Prifardd HME a ddarllenwyd yn noson dathlu cyhoeddi Dim ond deud gan IBJ.
Dyma englyn IBJ ar achlysur cyhoeddi Dim ond deud gan DJP a ddarllenwyd yn y cyfarfod i ddathlu cyhoeddi’r gyfrol nos Wener yn Drwm, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru..
blogdogfael.org /2006/07   (863 words)

  
 An Englyn | The Tour of Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
An Englyn is beautiful in its brevity, exquisite in its diction, making remarkable use of alliteration.
This is a form of thirty syllables arranged in lines of ten, six, seven and seven syllables.
The place to hear the modern Englyn is the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
www.tourwales.org.uk /node/19   (215 words)

  
 Englyn for John Evan Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
An "englyn" is a form of traditional Welsh poem.
There are eight forms of englyn, this one following the style of "Englyn unodl union".
I am informed by Dr Huw Walters of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth, that this "englyn" was written by Thomas Rees of Cwmpedol.
homepages.tesco.net /~dave.michael/englyn.html   (170 words)

  
 Welsh Verse Forms
Englyn Milwr DD>A stanza of three lines, on one rhyme, seven syllables to each line.
Englyn Unodl Union A four line stanza, ten, six, seven and seven syllables respectively.
Four line stanza, like Englyn unodl union but the syllable count of the lines goes seven, seven, ten, six.
anitraweb.org /kalliope/welsh.html   (860 words)

  
 Englyn Article, Englyn Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The seventh, eighth orninth syllable of the first line introduces the rhyme and this is repeated on the last syllable of the other three lines.
The last syllableof the first, second and last lines rhyme and seventh, eighth or ninth syllable of the third line all rhyme.
The lastsyllable of the third line rhymes with the second, third or fourth syllable of the last line.
www.anoca.org /rhyme/lines/englyn.html   (360 words)

  
 Clywed Cynghanedd -- Ymarferiadau Gwers 9
Ceisiwch lunio ail linell englyn i'r geiriau cyrch a ganlyn a hynny ar y ddau batrwm uchod:
Ewch ati i lunio ail linell englyn ar y ddau batrwm uchod i'r geiriau cyrch hyn:
Englyn mawl gan Dafydd Nanmor i Rys o Tywyn ydyw lle mae'n disgrifio ei ddiolchgarwch i'w noddwr mewn ffordd flodeuog iawn.
users.comlab.ox.ac.uk /geraint.jones/gwasg.aredig/cynghanedd/ymarfer/09.html   (322 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
They are all syllabic, which means there is not great emphasis on meter; it's more important to stick with the prescribed length of the line in syllables.
The englyn penfyr uses triplet stanzas with 10, 7, and 7 syllables in each line.
This may remind some people of haiku, which is also a syllabic triplet form, but the penfyr has a few sonic twists.
www.wunderland.com /WTS/Ginohn/poetry/forms/penfyr.html   (144 words)

  
 Celtic Epigrams in My Commonplace Book - favorite poems and quotations - Tao of Meow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
How happy are the wild birds, they can go where they will, now to the sea, now to the mountain, and come home without rebuke.
Englyn and harp and harp-string and the lordly feasts, all these have passed away; and where the nobility of Gwynedd used to be the birds of night now reign.
The Welsh englyn is a meter form that goes back to earliest times.
www.tsimmes.net /commonplace/epigram.html   (172 words)

  
 englyn
An englyn (plural englynion) simply means a verse of three or four lines written in strict metre.
Actually, this is not a good example of the Englyn Proest either, because of the use of 'ground'.
When people say 'an englyn', this is the form that they usually mean.
www.benybont.co.uk /triolet/englyn.htm   (485 words)

  
 The Tour of Wales | Providing a quality Welsh tour on the Internet since 1993
Not to be confused with the equally delicious (but not very Welsh) maple taffy from Canadian tapping off parties.
The poems themselves are often pointed and thought provoking.
There are many forms of Englyn, but the most often used is known as Englyn unodl union.
www.tourwales.org.uk /node?page=1   (1151 words)

  
 Yachting and Boating World: Any info on an H-B called SPICA
SPICA is a Harrison Butler Englyn, built in steel in about 1974/5.
If anyone has any info on her, and/or the H-B Englyn class in general I would be very grateful.
Incidentally, since so many HB designs, including most of the Englyns, are posthumous I have no doubt at all that she is a genuine classic.
www.ybw.com /forums/showflat.php?Number=227424&page=0   (293 words)

  
 Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery - CHAPTER XXVIII
He foretold a bridge, but not a railroad bridge; had he foretold a railroad bridge, or hinted at the marvels of steam, his claim to the second sight would have been incontestable.
What a triumph for Wales; what a triumph for bardism, if Lleiaf had ever written an englyn, or couplet, in which not a bridge for common traffic, but a railroad bridge over the Menai was hinted at, and steam travelling distinctly foretold!
The above englyn was printed in the Greal, 1792, p.
worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/english/WildWales/chap29.html   (1766 words)

  
 Radical Druid: POTD II.49 : On Simplicity (englyn cyrch)
Radical Druid: POTD II.49 : On Simplicity (englyn cyrch)
On Simplicity englyn cyrch Simple things make me content: knowing where my money's spent, poems written, letters sent, feeling good the rent's been paid, evenings without things to do, working 'til the work is through, reading a good book or...
This weblog is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
www.radicaldruid.com /movabletype/archives/2004/04/potd_ii49_on_si.html   (160 words)

  
 Achievements of the Owain Glyndwr Society
Four of his works are to be found in Westminster Abbey.
An englyn will be inscribed on the memorial.
A competition on Talwrn y Beirdd on Radio Cymru to create a commemorative englyn was won by Dafydd Wyn Jones of Aberangell, near Machynlleth.
www.owain-glyndwr-soc.org.uk /achievements.htm   (663 words)

  
 Morfablog » Cyffredinol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Fel arfer, dw i wedi dod yn ôl gyda fy mhen llawn barddoniaeth, a’r bwriad o ddarllen dim byd ond cerdd dafod nes bod yr hen fesurau yn chwysu o bob croendwll sy gyda fi.
Gwylio Guto Dafydd lunio englyn mewn rhyw ddau funud o’n blaen ni.
Philippa yn ennill gwobr Englyn y Dydd ddoe.
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 Gwyl Gynganeddu Ty Newydd: Annedd y Cynganeddwyr
6 englyn : : un yr un i leoedd neu adeiladau hanesyddol
Eleni hefyd, ac am y tro cyntaf yn hanes yr Wyl, bydd cystadleuaeth englyn y dydd yn cael ei chynnal dros y tridiau.
Bydd testun englyn dydd Gwener ar gael o ddydd Mercher, Tachwedd 16eg yn y fan hon, ar wefan Annedd y Cynganeddwyr neu drwy ffonio neu e-bostio Ty Newydd.
www.cynghanedd.com /gwyl/cystadleuaeth.html   (178 words)

  
 Cardiff University - Gwefan Ddigidol Ann Griffiths: Englyn Ann Griffiths
Perthynai ei thad, Siôn Ifan Thomas, i nythaid o feirdd gwlad, ac y mae ambell ‘englyn’ o’i waith wedi goroesi.
Cofnodwyd yr englynion yn eu ffurf uchod (yn 1863 neu 1864, yn ôl pob tebyg) gan berthynas i Ann Griffiths – John Jones, Y. H., Llanfyllin – mewn llyfr nodiadau a gedwir bellach yn y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol (LlGC 1071A).
Maent yn ymdebygu o ran ffurf i’r ‘englyn unodl crwca’, sef mesur ac ynddo’r un elfennau â’r ‘englyn unodl union’ ond fod yr esgyll a’r paladr wedi’u trawsosod.
www.anngriffiths.cardiff.ac.uk /englyn.html   (361 words)

  
 Web design in Pen yr englyn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
If your business in Pen yr englyn needs an an online shop, an online store, or an on-line shop then have a look at our two solutions.
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If you are based in Pen yr englyn, and need web design in Pen yr englyn or a content management system then have a look at our two solutions.
www.web-design-in-wales.co.uk /Pen_yr_englyn.htm   (232 words)

  
 Gwyl Gynganeddu 2006 - Dydd Sadwrn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Yn ystod y sesiwn bydd Myrddin ap Dafydd, Annes Glynn a Twm Morys yn eu tro yn trafod eu hoff englynion, tri englyn gan feirdd eraill ac un englyn o'u heiddio nhw eu hunain.
Yna cawn gip ar gefndir eu henglyn nhw eu hunain a'r hyn ysgogodd yr englyn neu hanes ei sgwennu.
Bydd Englyn dydd Sadwrn yn cael ei feirniadu, a bydd testun Englyn dydd Sul yn cael ei osod yn ystod yr adloniant nos Sadwrn ac yn ymddangos yma dydd Sadwrn.
www.tynewydd.org /GwylGynganeddu/gg2006/sadwrn.html   (323 words)

  
 Gwenllian's Poetry Primer, Part 2
When the gair cyrch appears in a poem's structure, I will, rather than repeating the explanation above, simply put gair cyrch.
The englyn is traditionally a short poem, often used to either praise or satirize (both important jobs of the traditional Welsh poet!) an important person, lord, or rival.
Englyns 6, 7, and 8 are englynion proest (half-rhymed englyns).
home.comcast.net /~bryant.katherine/part2.html   (1205 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Tua wythnos yn ol, anfonwyd y neges ganlynol ('sgen i ddim syniad yn y byd pwy a'i anfonodd, gan fy mod i heb gael 'headers' a'r person heb lofnodi, ond dyma ni, fel 'na mae bywyd...): < a oes englynwyr ar y Bitnet?
Dysgwyd yr englyn a ddilynir i mi gan was ffarm < o Feddgelert flynyddoedd yn ol.
Roedd hwnnw'n swnio'n gyfarwydd iawn i mi, hefyd, ac mi edrychais drwy "Hen Benillion" (golygwyd gan T.H. Parry Williams), ond heb ddod o hyd i'r englyn yna, ac wedyn "Llyfr Hwiangerddi y Dref Wen", eto heb lwyddiant.
www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/languages/welsh/welsh-l/1993/Jul/englynion   (298 words)

  
 Englyn Unodl Crwca
Yn ôl Roy Stephens yn ei lyfr Yr Odliadur (hynod yw a handi iawn!) fod yr englyn unodl crwca yn un o'r pedwar mesur ar hugain.
Dywed y llyfr Anghenion y Gynghanedd (Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru) am yr englyn unodl crwca: 'ni ddefnyddir mo'r englyn hwn heddiw.
Nid oes dim pwynt iddo, fel y cyfryw, a dyfais wag ar draul yr englyn ydyw.' Yr hyn yr hoffwn wybod yw a oes hawl defnyddio'r englyn unodl crwca wrth ysgrifennu awdl?
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 Amazon.com: "Englyn Proest Dalgron": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
See all pages with references to Englyn Proest Dalgron.
The reason is because the Englyn Lleddfbroest is almost identical to another poem type - the Englyn Proest Dalgron.
The use of dipthongs is really the only thing that differentiates these poems.
www.amazon.com /phrase/Englyn-Proest-Dalgron   (170 words)

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