Nicholas Jones20 Nov 2002

I could tell you how the Welsh Englyn has many similarities to a haiku, but it would take too long. Actually, I'll do it anyway. A source on the internet says of the englyn:
'This is a form of thirty syllables arranged in lines of ten, six, seven and seven syllables. There is one end-rhyme, but in the first line one, two or three syllables layer the rhyming word, and are echoed in the first words of the second line. Cynghanedd (literally "harmony", where there is an internal alliteration - certain consonants are made to recur regularly within a line) is necessary.'

Basically, I'd just come home from learning Welsh for two hours (I'm a long way from fluent in the language), and just did it for fun. By the way, a double L in Welsh is a sort of guttural 'cl' sound, as in Llanelli.

Oh, and one of the roles of are is to provoke and confuse the audience, which I think I managed.....