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What is the structure of Guillaume de Machaut's complaints?

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The complaint is a poem of many (30-50) stanzas of 4X4 lines each. When sung--only one of some 15 by Machaut is set to music (monophonically)--all stanzas are sung to the same music, each stanza falling into two repeated sections.

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