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AWDL
An awdl (lit. ‘rhyme’) is a poetic form which, among the Cynfeirdd and the Poets of the Princes, was a mono-rhyming sequence of lines within which different metres were sometimes combined. The chair at the National Eisteddfod is awarded for an awdl, and the term presently refers to a poem that includes any number of the traditional 24 metres which contain cynghanedd.
