3.1.2 Poetic Metre and Style
Recognise and appreciate strict metre, free metre, vers libre and other Welsh poetic choices.
How to use this English-interface Cymraeg guide
Read the strategy in English, then return to the Welsh source: quote and analyse its exact wording and produce every assessed response in accurate Cymraeg.
Core concepts
Concept 1
Strict metre, free metre and vers libre across the selected poem set
Exam cue: Confirm the current WJEC route, unit, task and assessment control before choosing a reading, writing or speaking strategy.
Concept 2
Sound, rhythm, imagery, structure and literary terminology
Exam cue: Identify the pattern from the Welsh poem, quote its operation and explain why the form suits the message.
Concept 3
Suitability of metre and style to content, message and attitude
Exam cue: Use the English guidance to plan the skill, but cite, analyse and produce the assessed response in accurate Welsh.
Risk pitfalls and guardrails
Treating metre as a label instead of explaining how rhythm, sound or structure changes meaning.
Guardrail: Do not translate away the assessed Welsh, bind optional texts universally or combine mutually exclusive award routes.
Answering the assessed task in English or translating away the Welsh wording, quotation, register, grammar or literary effect being assessed.
Guardrail: Do not translate away the assessed Welsh, bind optional texts universally or combine mutually exclusive award routes.
Binding every learner to an optional centre-selected text, poem or stimulus, or combining Single and Double Award units into one route.
Guardrail: Use Units 1-3 plus 4a for Single or Units 1-3 plus 4b, 5 and 6 for Double; never add weights or tasks across routes.
Memory anchors
mesur caeth
Strict metre governed by formal Welsh metrical rules.
mesur rhydd
Free metre with patterned rhythm but without strict-metre rules.
vers libre
Poetry without a regular metrical pattern.
rhythm
The movement created by stress, pace and sound pattern.
cynghanedd
A Welsh system of patterned sound correspondence within a line.
term llenyddol
A literary term used accurately to explain poetic craft.
Checkpoint rule
Do the check-up only after you can summarize each concept in one sentence and identify one dangerous pitfall from memory.
Knowledge Check (after reading)
Short check-up to confirm understanding of this module.
Check-up Questions
Which words form the clearest first rhyme pair?
What is the effect of the regular beat?
Answer all questions to submit.
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