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cynghanedd

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cynghanedd [kʌŋˈhanɛð]
n
(Literary & Literary Critical Terms) a complex system of rhyme and alliteration used in Welsh verse
[from Welsh]


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The retired farmer was recognised as a master of the craft of cynghanedd, the strict metre of Welsh poetry, and published several books of poetry.
calls Nabokov 'an emigre' who writes (like Joseph Conrad, possibly the most vivid of the Edwardian novelists) in an 'adoptive language' alien to the 'native speaker': No extract, however, could do justice to the sustained din of pun, allusion, neologism, alliteration, cynghanedd, apostrophe, parenthesis, rhetorical question, French, Latin, 'anent', 'perchance', 'would fain', 'for the nonce,' - here is style and no mistake.
A prolific poet, he was recognised as a master of the craft of cynghanedd, the strict metre of Welsh poetry and published several books of poetry.
 
 
 
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