Englyn

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: Dear Price, pure in his diligent service Wide in his knowledge; A man acerbic, fearless and fluent, And thorough in doctrine. ( ; plural ) is a traditional Welsh short poem form, consisting of a stanza of either three or four lines. The metre involves the counting of syllables, and rigid patterns of rhyme and half rhyme. Many lines contain a repeating pattern of consonants and accent known as . An can be used as a poem in its own right, for example as an epitaph, or used in a series as part of a longer poem. Sometimes different types of are mixed in the same poem. The three-line was common in early Welsh poetry, but about the 12th century it went out of fashion, to be replaced completely by four-line varieties. The most common type of is the four-line , which is usually referred to simply as an .

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