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The metrics are extraordinarily diverse: 280 different formats for the 420 Cantigas.
The most common are the virelai and the rondeau.
The length of the lines varies between two and 24 syllables.
The narrative voice in many of the songs describes an erotic relationship, in the troubadour fashion, with the Divine.
According to 2000 publishings by scholar Manuel Pedro Ferreira the models for the Cantigas might actually be something different than a traditional French rondeau.
He calls the format for some of the Cantigas the " Andalusian rondeau " which has a structure of AB / BB / AB.
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