A sophisticated Welsh poetic technique using alliteration, assonance, and consonance to create complex sound patterns and rhyming schemes.
From Welsh, literally meaning 'sounding together' or 'harmony,' from 'cytgan' (consonance) and the prefix 'cyn-' (together). Developed in Welsh poetry from medieval times.
Welsh poets created such intricate cynghanedd patterns that it takes years to master—some patterns require three different sound schemes running simultaneously, making it maybe the world's most complex poetic form.
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