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What does englyn mean?

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Noun
  1. (poetry) A short Welsh or Cornish poem of a variable structure, with each line using quantitative metre and cynghanedd (a repeating pattern of consonants and accent), and different lines being arranged in standardized patterns of rhyme and half rhyme.
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The englyn as we know it in Canu Llywarch Hen and Elegy on Cynddylan is characterized by three lines with end rhyme.
The Englyn and Drott-Kvaett are both metrically complicated, Skaldic forms.
Each particular species of englyn, cywydd, and awdl has its appropriate name, which it is needless to give here.

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