Note 806 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 3)

Ibid., p. 396, note 1. Or, as in old Portuguese song, copied from the popular manner, one part of the dancers sang one verse, and another part, like strophe and antistrophe, repeated the verse with a slight change, usually in the final word which rimes with the other final word. The connection of this with the contrasto of lover and sweetheart, imitated in the dance, of debate, flyting, tenso, and the like, would lead too far afield. See p. 207, and below, p. 325.