virelay 的定义
Prosody.
- an old French form of short poem, composed of short lines running on two rhymes and having two opening lines recurring at intervals.
- any of various similar or other forms of poem, as one consisting of stanzas made up of longer and shorter lines, the lines of each kind rhyming together in each stanza, and having the rhyme of the shorter lines of one stanza forming the rhyme of the longer lines of the next stanza.
- a medieval song form providing a musical setting for a virelay but having a formal structure different from that of the poem.
更多virelay例句
- This may be called a virelay in the English sense, and is possibly what Chaucer intended by that name.
- It is not a true Virelay (in the French sense), and first appeared in the edition of 1561; see vol.
- The chevalier was singing a virelay which he accompanied by striking Rolande against the branches, then barren of foliage.
- The virelay seems to have been in vogue in earlier English poetry.
- A Virelay is a poem in an unusual metre, of which examples are very rare.