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ap Ieuan Hen, the repeated consonantal pattern is {D S [stress] N}, with the initial ignored:

Two consonants for one

Sometimes a consonant which comes twice in succession in one half of the line corresponds to a single consonant in the other half, as in this line by Dafydd ap Gwilym, where the two s in the first half correspond to a single in the second half, creating the pattern {G R(R) S [stress]}:

In the following, by Siôn Phylip (16th

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