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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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lyn glyn flyn allyn emlyn talyn volyn arlyn telyn roslyn cailyn evelyn merlyn jaclyn hoblyn evalyn avalyn kaylyn adalyn marylyn
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