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Cynghanedd Poetry Puzzle

Also known as Cynghanedd

Cynghanedd Poetry Puzzle: photograph by Geoff Charles
Photo: Geoff Charles, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Fill a line so its consonants repeat in a fixed pattern (cross-rhyme, sain, llusg), solving a clue like a crossword for sound.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of United Kingdom.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Modern Heritage (1800 to today), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Celtic and Atlantic Europe.

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