Englyn unodl crwca, én-glin éen-oddle crewc (crooked short one rhyme englyn) the 4th codified Official Welsh Meter, an Englyn,, is the structural reverse of Englyn unodl union which is far more popular. The englyn unodl crwca is rarely used.
The Englyn unodl crwc is:
• stanzaic, written as any number of quatrains,
• syllabic, 7-7-10-6 syllable per line.
• rhymed, mono rhymed. In L3 the main rhyme is found in the last half of the line followed by caesura and gair cyrch.
• composed with “gair cyrch” in L3 (syllables in the last half of a line that follow the main rhyme marked by caesura. The gair cyrch end rhyme is to be echoed or consonated as secondary rhyme in the 1st half of L4. The caesura often appears as a dash.)
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x x x x x x A x x x x x x A x x x x x x A – x x b x b x x x A |
Kyt ymwnel kywyt, bryt brys, yn llawen llewych yslys, lletryt dallon donn ef ai dengys—gud lliw blaen gruc Generys. —- Einion Offeiriad 15th century |
Upon this Rock by Judi Van Gorder He chose a simple fisherman, rock foundation holds God’s plan, His anointed Sacristan – head of church, Peter’s perch . . . Vatican. |
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Englyn Unodl Crwca
Type: Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, Stanzaic
Description: (englin eenoddle crewcah) A quatrain with syllable counts: seven, seven, ten, and six and having rhyme and cross-rhyme.
Origin: Welsh
Schematic:
xxxxxxa
xxxxxxa
xxxxxxaxxb
xbxxxa
a = main rhyme.
b = subsidiary rhyme that has consonance,
assonance, alliteration
Cross rhymes can shift a few positions:
a = 7-9
b = 2-4
Rhythm/Stanza Length: 4
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My thanks to Charles L. Weatherford for his years of work on the wonderful Poetrybase resource.
Related Welsh Form are HERE.
My example
Meth-a-morphosis (Englyn unodl cdwc)
My friends girl-friend’s mouth’s a mess
It is meth-mouth I confess.
The facts she will not address – what great cost
to be lost to excess.
She is not dumb, she’s aware.
Need’s too strong, she doesn’t care
though she knows there’s help out there – not for her!
She’ll defer to despair.
© Lawrencealot – December 12, 2014
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