Name and form

A title kyrielle derives from either a kyrie something (Lord had mercy), which is a share of the Roman Catholic liturgy. The kyrielle is written within rhyming couplets or quatrains and utilizes the sentence Lord keep close at hand mercy, or even a variant thereon, as a refrain as the 2nd line of the couplet or even survive line of the quatrain. Within less nonindulgent usage, more phrases, & occasionally lone words, come utilized when a chorus.

Whenever a kyrielle is written inside couplets, a rhyme scheme will be: The-the, The-A. There are a total of conceivable rhyme schemes for kyrielle constructed within quatrains, including the-the-b-B, c-c-b-B & the-b-the-B, c-b-c-B (uppercase letters signify the chorus). In the original French kyrielle, lines were generally octosyllabic. Inside English, a lines come usually iambic tetrameters.

An example

This kyrielle is by Thomas Campion.

The Lenten Hymn