Day 164:

Dec 11-Gwawdodyn, gwow-dód-in-heer (gwad = poem) 20th codified, Official Welsh Meter, an Awdl. combination of cyhydded naw ban couplet followed by either a toddaid or cyhydedd hir couplet. is stanzaic, written in any # of quatrains of a Cyhydedd Naw Ban couplet followed by either a Toddaid or Cyhydedd Hir. syllabic, L1,L2,L4 are 9 syllable lines & L3 is 10 syllable line. rhymed, rhyme scheme end rhyme w/ cyhydedd hir AABC or w/ Toddaid AABC w/ main rhyme B echoed in 1st half of L4. end rhyme of L4 repeated in L4 of subsequent stanzas. Syllable count per line: 9, 9, 10 (sometimes split into 5+5), 6
Rhyme Pattern: a, a, (a) + b (the internal rhyme a can come on the seventh, eighth or ninth syllable), (b) +a (the internal rhyme b comes in the middle of the line).

9 syllable couplets, 4 line stanzas. Toddaid typically ending. Sometimes switch back and forth with 9 syllable a, 9 syllable a, 10 syllable with internal rhyme, ending in 6 syllable internal and extrnal rhyme.
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A gwawdodyn is a Celtic phrase

Nine syllables start the poet’s praise
Or reverse the couplets here. Stanzas grow
A doddaid’s rhyme show cheer!