Honing the Craft

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Gwawdodyn  
My poem written using a Cyhywedd Naw Ban couplet followed by a Cyhywedd Hir couplet in the first stanza and a Cyhywedd Naw Ban couplet followed by a Toddaid couplet in the second stanza, featuring the gair cyrch.

Gwawdodyn = Cyhywedd Naw Ban followed by a Cyhydedd Hir
x x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x x a
x x x x b x x x x b
x x x b x x x x a

x x x x x x x x c
x x x x x x x x c
x x x x d x x x x d
x x x x d x x x c

Or

Gwawdodyn = Cyhywedd Naw Ban couplet followed by a Toddaid couplet. Underlined is the gair cyrch (phrase or word following main rhyme, and separated by caesura. The end rhyme of L3 is echoed in the first half of L4 and can be simply assonance or consonance, it need not be true rhyme.

x x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x a - x x b
x x x b x x x x a

x x x x x x x x c
x x x x x x x x c
x x x x x x x c - x d
x x d x x x x x c

or

x x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x b - x c
x x c x x x x x b

x x x x x x x x d
x x x x x x x x d
x x x x x x e - x x f
x x x x f x x x e