kyrielle
noun
kyr·i·elle
¦kirē¦el
plural kyrielle
: a French verse form in short usually octosyllabic rhyming couplets often paired in quatrains and characterized by a refrain which is sometimes a single word or sometimes the full second line of the couplet or fourth line of the quatrain
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