Cynghanedd is a traditional Welsh system of sound patterning that organizes a line through carefully arranged consonants, stresses, and internal echoes. Rather than depending only on end rhyme, it creates musical balance by matching, repeating, or answering sounds within the line. Welsh poets use cynghanedd in several forms, and its exact patterns are a defining feature of classical Welsh verse.
Example
Dark roads crack; a flock of crows crosses the dusk.
Stone walls hold the cold; gold wind folds over them.