Usually means: Welsh poetic form, intricate soundplay.
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▸ noun:  (prosody) The complex system of internal assonance, alliteration and rhyme in Welsh strict-meter poetry.

Similar:
cywydd, Cymric, crouth, crowth, catalectic, caconymy, cacosyntheton, cyme, cadence, cyma, more...

Opposite:
uncynghanedd, disharmony, discordance, dissonance

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Similar:
cywydd, Cymric, crouth, crowth, catalectic, caconymy, cacosyntheton, cyme, cadence, cyma, more...

Opposite:
uncynghanedd, disharmony, discordance, dissonance



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