virelai

• Rondeal, balade and virelai. —  Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
• Rondeal, balade and virelai —  Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
• Rondel, or rondeau, or virelai? —  The Book of Humorous Verse
• With idle songs for pipe and virelai, —  The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
• In lyric poetry the free creative spirit had declined, but the technique of verse was elaborated and reduced to rule; ballade, chant royal, lai, virelai, rondeau were the established forms, and lyric verse was often used for matter of a didactic, moral, or satirical tendency. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.

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