found: Harmon, W. A handbook to literature, 2006(Englyn: A venerable Welsh pattern of verse, usually quatrain with complex rules governing alliteration and rhyme)
found: The new Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, 1993(Englyn (pl. englynion): Along with awdl and cywydd, one of the three classes of the 24 "strict meters" of Welsh poetry. The earliest forms are tercets, but after the 12th c. these are replaced by quatrains in monorhyme or consonance. Six of the eight varieties of englynion are quatrains, and the most common line length is the heptasyllable, though combinations of 10, 6, and 7 are also common. Since the 12th c., the most common variety has been the e. unodl union (direct monorhyme e.), a quatrain of lines of 10, 6, 7 and 7 syllables.)
found: SuperGlossary.com, Dec. 21, 2012(Englyn: A group of certain Welsh tercets and quatrains written in strict Welsh meters including monorhyme and cywydd, especially in poems that make use of cynghanedd. The simplest example of an englyn is the soldiers' englyn, a rhymed tercet in which each line has seven syllables.)
found: Britannica Academic Edition online, Dec. 21, 2012(englyn, a group of strict Welsh poetic metres. The most popular form is the englyn unodl union ("direct monorhyme englyn"), which is a combination of a cywydd, a type of rhyming couplet, and another form and is written in an intricate pattern of alliteration and rhyme called cynghanedd. The englyn unodl union consists of 30 syllables in lines of 10, 6, 7, and 7 syllables. In this form the last syllables of the last three lines rhyme with the 6th, 7th, 8th, or 9th syllable of the first line. The various forms of englyns were among the 24 strict bardic metres available to Welsh poets from roughly the 14th century.)
