| To win the Chair the poet must write around 200 lines of strict-metre verse, called cynghanedd. |
| Cynghanedd and traditional metres are still used today by many Welsh language poets. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Goronwy Owen wrote all his poetry in the cynghanedd, and his work gave the old metres a new life. |
| Unbeknownst to the foreboders, the youngsters were listening to cynghanedd on their Sony Walkman, and reading Anghenion y Gynghanedd in between games of Pacman. |
