Iorwerth Vychan
Coruscatio portuum aquarum, et paludum marinarum;Cum sol splendet ab excelso monte.
"Goluchav glew, hael, hilig Nav Ner,Aded gynt, ettiynt, hyd yn irfer hallt."
Words in this poem
- monte n.
- A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards. [Sp., lit., mountain, hence, the stock of cards remaining after laying out a certain number, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Iorwerth Vychan 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, Iorwerth Vychan, in Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards (1764), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #32767, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/evans-welsh/iorwerth-vychan.html, id L11889.
Form and metre
Iorwerth Vychan is 4 lines in 2 stanzas of 2 lines each. The lines average 11.5 syllables. 1 line ends on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending.
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Coruscatio portuum aquarum, et paludum marinarum; | 17 | ················· |
| Cum sol splendet ab excelso monte. | 10 | ········/˘ |
| "Goluchav glew, hael, hilig Nav Ner, | 9 | ········· |
| Aded gynt, ettiynt, hyd yn irfer hallt." | 10 | ·········· |
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