W. Lleyn
A roist ofal i'm calon,A brath o hiraeth i'm bron:Ni wyr un ar a anwydA roist o gur, os teg wyd;Enwa anhunedd yn henaintA yr wyn fyth yr un faint.
Enwa'n hunedd yn henaintE yr wyn fyth yr un faint.
About this text
W. Lleyn 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, W. Lleyn, in Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards (1764), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #32767, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/evans-welsh/w-lleyn.html, id L11886.
Form and metre
W. Lleyn is 8 lines in 2 stanzas. The metre is iambic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 77%). 100% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 7.1 syllables. 38% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic tetrameter.
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.
- 1 AABBCC calonA · bronA · anwydB · wydB · henaintC · faintC
- 2 AA henaintA · faintA
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. Read against iambic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| A roist ofal i'm calon, | 7 | ······· |
| A brath o hiraeth i'm bron: | 7 | ······· |
| Ni wyr un ar a anwyd | 7 | ······· |
| A roist o gur, os teg wyd; | 7 | ······· |
| Enwa anhunedd yn henaint | 8 | ········ |
| A yr wyn fyth yr un faint. | 7 | ······· |
| Enwa'n hunedd yn henaint | 7 | ······· |
| E yr wyn fyth yr un faint. | 7 | ······· |
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