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SOURCE: Bromwich, Rachel. “The Earlier Cywyddwyr: Poets Contemporary with Dafydd ap Gwilym.” In A Guide to Welsh Literature, pp. 144-60. Wales: Christopher Davies Ltd., 1979.
In the following excerpt, Bromwich analyzes the metre of the works of Dafydd and his contemporaries, and its societal and artistic implications.
The following lively fragment describing a horse is quoted in each of the four early versions of the Bardic Grammar as an example of the metre cywydd deuair hirion, which was to become the increasingly favoured medium of fourteenth-century poets:
| Breichffyrf, archgrwn, byr ei flew, | Strong of foreleg, round-chested, short-haired, |
| Llyfn, llygadrwth, pedreindew, | Sleek, keen-eyed, thick-haunched, |
| Cyflwydd coflaid, cyrch amcaff, | Victorious darling, greedy for oats, |
| Cyflym, cefnfyr, carn geugraff, | Swift, short-backed, firm and hollow-hoofed, |
| Cyflawn o galon a chig, | Fulfilled in spirit and in flesh, |
| Cyfliw blodau'r banadlfrig. | One hue with the flower-tips of the broom. |
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