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| | Virelay |
 | | But this appears to be, not a complete poem, but a fragment of a virelay, which proceeds by shifting or veering the two rhymes to an extent limited only by the poets ingenuity. |
 | | In French the old and popular verses beginning "Adieu vous dy triste Lyre, C'est trop apprter a rire", form a perfect example of the New Virelay, and in English we have at least one admirable specimen in Mr. |
 | | 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. |
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