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Virelai
A French form with alternating rhymes and line lengths.
Each stanza is in three sections, the first two having the same rhyme scheme
and the last having the rhyme scheme of the refrain.
9 lines with a rhyming scheme of aab aab aab.
Line one, two, four, five, seven and eight have 5 syllables.
Line three, six and nine have 2 syllables.