💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Virelai"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| villanellenoun | (poetry) A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes. |
| pantoumnoun | A poem, similar to a villanelle, that comprises a series of quatrains, the second and fourth lines of each stanza repeated as the first and third lines of the next. |
| versiclenoun | In liturgy, the verse spoken by the officiant. |
| ottava rimanoun | (poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc). |
| trioletnoun | (poetry) An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter. |
| rondeletnoun | A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables |
| ottavarimanoun | Alternative form of ottava rima. [(poetry) An arrangement of stanzas of eight lines in heroic verse, with three rhymes, the first six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming a couplet (ab ab ab cc).] |
| omquædnoun | A line that is repeated in every stanza of a poem or ballad. |
| roundelaynoun | (music) A poem or song having a line or phrase repeated at regular intervals. |
| versenoun | Poetic form in general. |
| quatrainnoun | A poem in four lines. |
| terza rimanoun | (poetry) An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc. |
| virganoun | (measurement, countable) A unit of length: a rod, pole or perch (5½ yards); or a unit of area: a square rod, pole or perch. |
| terzanellenoun | (poetry) A poetry form which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima. |
| limericknoun | A humorous, often bawdy verse of five anapaestic lines, with the rhyme scheme aabba, and typically having an 8–8–5–5–8 cadence. |
| sestinanoun | (poetry) A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines. |
| landaynoun | A traditional Afghan poetic form consisting of a single couplet, with nine syllables in the first line and thirteen in the second. |
| sonnetnoun | A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes. |
| cinquainnoun | A five-line poetic form which consists of 2, 4, 6, 8 then 2 syllables. |
| bivirganoun | (music) A neume that doubles the value of the first note in a series of virgae. |
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