Unlike the crown, which is awarded on the Monday of eisteddfod week for poems in the free metres, the chair is reserved for poems in cynghanedd, the ancient system of strict poetic metres which requires poems to be written in a complex mix of consonantal harmony, stress, rhythm and rhyme.

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The rich repertoire of songs and scores preserves ancient folk music and poems and has influenced opera, puppet theatre and other performing art traditions.

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The games in Ancient Greece also commissioned the Epinicians, poems to commemorate the athletic events.

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Most ancient Greeks believed that there was a poet called Homer who wrote down his poems.

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