A Poem
Entitled the Ode of the Months, composed by Gwilym Ddu of Arfon, toSir John Griffydd Llwyd, of Tregarnedd and Dinorwig.
"'Llyfrau Cymru au llofruddIr twr Gwyn aethant ar guddYsceler oedd YscolanFwrw'r twrr lyfrau ir tan.'
The Chief of Bards, and Elphin, the son of Gwyddno Goranhir, hisPatron.
A wn ni enw Aneurin Gwawdrydd AwenyddA minnau Daliesin o lann Llyn Geirionnydd.
About this text
A Poem is in the public domain. This text is taken from Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards, Project Gutenberg ebook #32767; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Evan Evans, A Poem, in Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards (1764), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #32767, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/evans-welsh/a-poem.html, id L11872.
Form and metre
A Poem is 10 lines in 4 stanzas. 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 10.0 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 60% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 2 AA-- llofruddA · guddA · yscolan · tan
- 4 AA awenyddA · geirionnyddA
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Entitled the Ode of the Months, composed by Gwilym Ddu of Arfon, to | 18 | ˘/˘·····˘/········ |
| Sir John Griffydd Llwyd, of Tregarnedd and Dinorwig. | 13 | ············· |
| "'Llyfrau Cymru au llofrudd | 7 | ······· |
| Ir twr Gwyn aethant ar gudd | 7 | ······· |
| Ysceler oedd Yscolan | 7 | ······· |
| Fwrw'r twrr lyfrau ir tan.' | 6 | ······ |
| The Chief of Bards, and Elphin, the son of Gwyddno Goranhir, his | 16 | ················ |
| Patron. | 2 | /˘ |
| A wn ni enw Aneurin Gwawdrydd Awenydd | 12 | ············ |
| A minnau Daliesin o lann Llyn Geirionnydd. | 12 | ············ |
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