To win the Chair the poet must write around 200 lines of strict-metre verse, called cynghanedd. |
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Eurig, who teaches cynghanedd to students in Aberystwyth and at Ysgol Penweddig, will be on the Eisteddfod stage tomorrow competing in choral and recitation competitions. |
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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. |
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Unbeknownst to the foreboders, the youngsters were listening to cynghanedd on their Sony Walkman, and reading Anghenion y Gynghanedd in between games of Pacman. |
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Cynghanedd and traditional metres are still used today by many Welsh language poets. |
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Cynghanedd did not become a formal system with strict rules until the fourteenth century, but its uniquely Welsh forms had been honed for centuries before that. |
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