While the training of poets had always been kept within bardic circles, with the craft handed down from tutor to pupil, Dafydd’s reforms of the metres subsequently increased the segregation between the “professional elite” and the amateur poets.
Mentres que o adestramento de poetas sempre se fixera no interior do círculo bárdico, nos que a arte se transmitía de titor a pupilo, as reformas métricas de Dafydd incrementaron a segregación entre a “elite profesional” e os poetas afeccionados.