The traethodl is a
Welsh
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* Welsh, referring or related to Wales
* Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales
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People
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* Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peop ...
verse form consisting of
couplets
A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre. A couplet may be formal (closed) or run-on (open). In a formal (or closed) couplet, each of the ...
in which seven-syllabled lines
rhyme
A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (usually, the exact same phonemes) in the final stressed syllables and any following syllables of two or more words. Most often, this kind of perfect rhyming is consciously used for a musical or aesthetic ...
with alternate accented and unaccented rhyming syllables.
It is first attested in
medieval Welsh literature. With the addition of ''
cynghanedd
In Welsh-language poetry, ''cynghanedd'' (, literally "harmony") is the basic concept of sound-arrangement within one line, using stress, alliteration and rhyme. The various forms of ''cynghanedd'' show up in the definitions of all formal Welsh v ...
'', it was elaborated in the 14th century and developed into the ''
cywydd''.
See also
*
Welsh poetry
Footnotes
Welsh poetry
Medieval Welsh literature
Welsh-language literature
Western medieval lyric forms
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