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	Virelay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There is, however, a New Virelay (virelai nouveau), the newness of which is merely relative, since it was used by Alain Chartier in the 15th century.
		The New Virelay is entirely written on two rhymes, and begins with two lines which are destined to form recurrent refrains throughout the whole course of the poem, and, reversed in order, to close it with a couplet.
		The virelay is a vaguer and less vertebrate form of verse than the sonnet, the ballad or the villanelle, and is of less importance than these in the history of prosody.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virelay (345 words)

	VIRELAY - Online Information article about VIRELAY
		character of the virelay are more obscure than those of any other of the old French forms.
		complete poem, but a fragment of a virelay, which proceeds by shifting or " veering " the two rhymes to an extent limited only by the poet's ingenuity.
		There is, however, a New Virelay (virelai nouveau), the newness of which is merely relative, since it was used by Alain See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /VIR_WAT/VIRELAY.html (459 words)

	Refrain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A refrain (from the Old French refraindre "to repeat," likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song.
		Poetic fixed forms that feature refrains include the villanelle, the virelay, and the sestina.
		However, the use of refrains is particularly associated with popular music, especially rock and roll, where the verse-chorus-verse song structure typically places a refrain in almost every song.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Refrain (414 words)

	virelay - definition by dict.die.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		[F. virelai; virer to turn + lai a song, a lay.] An ancient French song, or short poem, wholly in two rhymes, and composed in short lines, with a refrain.
		Of such matter made he many lays, Songs, complains, roundels, virelayes.
		Note: ``The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the other.'' --Nares.
	dict.die.net /virelay (66 words)

	Literary Terms and Definitions V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		VIRELAY: An old French term for a short poem consisting of (A) short lines using two rhymes and (B) two opening lines that recur intermittently.
		A second form of the virelay consists of stanzas made up of shorter and longer lines, the lines of each kind rhyming within one stanza and with the rhymes of the shorter lines rhyming with the longer ones of the preceding stanza.
		The form never became popular in English because of the difficulties with the set rhyming of English words and the potential for monotony, but Chaucer apparently wrote many virelays in his youth.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/lit_terms_V.html (3594 words)

	FanFiction.Net : Dictionary & Thesaurus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : Virelay *\Vir"elay\**, n.
		[1913 Webster] To which a lady sung a virelay.
		[1913 Webster] Note: "The virelay admitted only two rhymes, and, after employing one for some time, the poet was virer, or to turn, to the other." --Nares.
	www.fanfiction.net /dictionary.php?word=virelay (103 words)

	virelay - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		VIRELAY : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Virelay : Glossary of Literary Terms [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /?w=virelay&loc=dym (198 words)

	Poetry Form - The Lai.
		The Lai, a French syllabic verse form, is a poem of one or more stanza of nine short lines that include two rhymes.
		The stanza of the Virelay, also a French syllabic verse form, uses the same rhymes and syllabic count (5-5-2 repeated 3 times) as the Lai.
		The difference is that the long lines of the each stanza after the first rhyme with the short lines of the immediately preceding stanza.
	www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/form/lai.htm (661 words)

	Poetry From The Starlite Cafe: Virus
		The virelay is a poem that is written in Quatrains.
		There is a rhyme scheme, but no fixed meter.
		The rhyme scheme of the virelay is interlinked, thus:
	www.thestarlitecafe.com /poems/75/poem_8233366208.html (36 words)

	pathetic.org :: poetry dictionary
		An ancient French verse form consisting of stanzas of indeterminate length and number, with alternating long and short lines and an interlaced rhyme scheme, as abab bcbc cdcd dada.
		NOTE: Virelay is the Anglicized spelling of the French virelai, a variation of the lai.
		Poetry arranged in such a manner that its visual appearance has an elevated significance of its own, thus achieving in an equivalence (or even more) between the sight and sound of the poem.
	www.pathetic.org /dictionary.php?s=V (505 words)

	Writing.Com: The Baltimore Fire
		The Virelay has no fixed meter, but does have a rhyming scheme and is written in interlinking quatrains.
		There is no limit to this poetry, although the last stanza must consist of the rhyme found in the short lines from the last stanza and the first stanza.
		Since the Virelay has a close relationship with the Ballade; it alternates one long line, one short line all the way through the poem.
	www.writing.com /main/view_item/item_id/798290 (574 words)

	Shadow Poetry -- Resources -- Poetry Handbook -- V
		The first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets, with both repeated at the end of the closing quatrain in the last couplet.
		Seldom used in English, virelay is a French form composed of stanzas of long lines rhyming with each other while short lines rhyme with one another.
		The short lines of each stanza provide the rhyme for the long lines of the next stanza, except for the last stanza.
	www.shadowpoetry.com /resources/handbook/v.html (263 words)

	Dangerous Books Guide: Warrior Librarian Weekly.
		The cause is the poetry bacillus, a rod-shaped bacteria referred to as Yersinia pestis.
		Free verse and the sonnet are the most important reservoirs for the plague bacillus, although the acrostic, ballad, cinquain, haiku, limerick, paradelle, rubiyat, Spenserian stanza, and virelay can be important reservoirs as well.
		The most important vector for transmission of plague is the poetic device, Xenopsylla cheopis.
	www.warriorlibrarian.com /LIBLAUGHS/dangerous_books.html (2089 words)

	Virelay by Geoffrey Chaucer : Summary Explanation Meaning Overview Essay Writing Critique Peer Review Literary Criticism
		Virelay by Geoffrey Chaucer : Summary Explanation Meaning Overview Essay Writing Critique Peer Review Literary Criticism
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	www.eliteskills.com /c/608 (42 words)

	Gower as Gerontion; Oneiric Autobiography in the
		In her discussion of the Voir Dit, a text that also deals with an old man's erotic involvement with a younger woman (and one that may have been more successful than the one Gower describes), [Sylvia Huot's remarks on the virelay composed within Venus' cloud (From Song to Book, Ithaca, 1987, pp.
		The virelay does hint at erotic fulfillment when it describes in some detail the death of Dangier at the hands of Venus...
		But is a virelay produced by sexual coupling?
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/gowtalk.htm (5144 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Finalist Welcome Desk
		You have five days to write twelve sestinas, four limericks, and a Bulgarian variant of the virelay.
		You must critique six poems in Merciless and four in High.
		Don't forget, you must also drop in to AGCandC and encourage seven blooming poets with selections from the Collected Works of Tennyson.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=25126 (623 words)

	1st Person Plural: PV - April - Virelay - 4/6/2002
		It's a virelay, ancient French form, lines 1 and 3 are long, 2 and 4 are short.
		Not exactly sure if we got that, but close enough for now.
		Posted by: Imported Comments on May 13, 2002 01:06 PM
	puppetmotel.net /1stpersonplural/archives/001159.html (135 words)

	MSN Encarta - Dictionary - virelay definition
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		French verse form: an old French verse form consisting of short lines arranged in stanzas with two rhymes, the end rhyme being repeated in the first line of the next stanza
	ca.encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861734242/virelay.html (77 words)

	VIRELAY - LoveToKnow Article on VIRELAY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There is, however, a New Virelay (virelai noaveau), the newness of which is merely relative, since it was used by Alain Chartier in the i~th century.
		In French the old and popular verses beginning Adieu vous dy triste Lyre, Cest trop apprter a rire, form a perfect example of the New Virelay, and in English we have at least one admirable specimen in Mr Austin Dobsons July Good-bye to the Town!
		(E. To properly cite this VIRELAY article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911ency.org /V/VI/VIRELAY.htm (329 words)

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		To drift with every passion till my soul Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play, Is it for this that I have given away Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?
		Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll Scrawled over on some boyish holiday With idle songs for pipe and virelay, Which do but mar the secret of the whole.
		Surely there was a time I might have trod The sunlit heights, and from life's dissonance Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God: Is that time dead?
	snowy.arsc.alaska.edu /gutenberg/etext97/pmwld10.txt (15280 words)

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