Swn y Gynghanedd

Erthygl Saesneg ar y Gynghanedd a barddoniaeth Cymraeg sy’n defnyddio cân Bob Delyn “Y Sŵn” i esbonio y mathau gwahanol o gynghaneddu. (Dw i’n mynd i weld Bob Delyn mewn cwpl o oriau.) Mae’r erthygl yn cynnwys un o’r “ffeithiau cyfareddol” dw i’n hoffi rhannu gyda gwesteion o Loegr sy’n aros ’ma:

Accompanying the huge surge in national consciousness and action came a renewal of interest in the traditional poetic forms; it is claimed that more poets in Wales today practise the strict metres than at any point in the past. Barddas, the bi-monthly magazine of the strict-metre poetry society, has the second greatest circulation of any poetry magazine in Britain (and that for a ëminorityí art-form in a minority tongue, with a possible circulation of less than one percent of that of English-language journals in Britain).

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