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A French Meal
The virelai is a French poetic form with alternating rhymes and line lengths. Here are basic guidelines: + nine lines per stanza, + lines one, two, four, five, seven, and eight have five syllables + lines three, six, and nine have two syllables + the five-syllable lines rhyme with each other and the two-syllable lines rhyme with each other to make the following rhyme pattern: aabaabaab + the end rhyme for the short lines continues on in the following stanza + the final stanza’s short-line end rhyme should be the same as the long-line end rhyme in the opening stanza (to complete the end-rhyme circle) Note on stanzas: This form can contain as few as two stanzas to infinity (if you could write that many). Writer’s Digest, by Robert Lee Brewer
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