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Virelai Complex	A form of the medieval French lyric. It consists of short lines in stanzas with only two rhymes, where the final rhyme of one stanza becomes the main rhyme of the next.

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"A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain."

~ William Shakespeare

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