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A French verse form in short, usually octosyllabic, rhyming couplets. The couplets are often paired in quatrains and are characterized by a refrain that is sometimes a single word and sometimes the full second line of the couplet or the full fourth ...
http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page3.html
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- The Kyrielle
The Kyrielle is a French form written in quatrains. Each quatrain contains a repeated line or phrase as a refrain. It has a meter usually composed of eight syllables per line but it can be varied. There is no limit to the number of stanzas, but three ...
http://members.optusnet.com.au/kazoom/poetry/kyrielle.html
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- Kyrielle Forms
The Kyrielle was once a very popular poetic form originating in France and dating back to the middle ages. The word Kyrielle is derived from a part of the church liturgy, the kyrie eleison. This is why we have the refrain, which is a characteristic o ...
http://www.poetryuk.co.uk/workshop/kyrielle.htm
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