Crossword-Solution: VIRELAI 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The knight in the meantime, had brought the strings into some order, and after a short prelude, asked his host whether he would choose a “sirvente” in the language of “oc”, or a “lai” in the language of “oui”, or a “virelai”, or a ballad in the vulgar English.

Mor jolif than the brid in Maii He makth him evere freissh and gay, And doth al his array desguise, So that of him the newe guise Of lusti folk alle othre take; And ek he can carolles make, Rondeal, balade and virelai.

The Virelai, which we have seen was one of the forms used by Chaucer, though not represented in his extant poetry, has been but slightly imitated in English.

These forms, the Ballade, the Rondeau, the Virelai, etc., have already been alluded to as making their appearance among the later growths of early lyrical poetry.

Versification affords a broad field for achievement poetic since we have such various forms as the rondel, ballade, pantoum--" "O burn me, Ben," ejaculated Alvaston, "you're out there! What's verses t' do with phantoms----" "I said 'pantoum,' sir--besides which, gentlemen, we have the triolet, the kyrielle, the virelai, the vilanelle----" "O dem!" cried the Marquis, "sounds curst improper and villainous, too, Ben." Cries of "Order, Ben, order----" "And likewise O!" added Lord Alvaston.