In order to display his art, the poet moreover made each pair of rhymes in the same line a rim consonan lejal. This kind of rhyme was sometimes carried to such an extent that each syllable of a whole verse agreed with the corresponding syllable of another. This was called a rim serpenti. Of such exaggeration there is probably no instance in the good troubadours; the ‘Leys d’Amors’ gives the following: Bos—dieus—clarratz[40]—cara Los—mieus—gardatz—ara. Next come the rhymes between the ends of the verses of one and the same stanza. The simplest form possible in this case was that all the verses of a stanza should have but one rhyme, which suggests the tirade monorime in the popular epic. The ‘Leys d’Amors’ calls this rim continuat. Although very simple, this rhyme was used by the most finished troubadours, such as Marcabrun and Aimeric de Peguilhan. Sordello bewailed in it the death of his friend Blacatz; and in the last-named poem combined with the long verse of twelve syllables, it has an excellent effect owing to its dreary monotonous sound. When there are two or more rhymes in a stanza, their order is varied in many different ways. The most simple mode is what the ‘Leys d’Amors’ calls rims encadenatz; and next to this the rims crozatz. Rims encadenatz are crossed rhymes, viz., _a b: a b_. This position of the rhymes, continued through a whole stanza, is not often to be found in the better, or at least more artistic, troubadours. Johan de Pena, one of the less celebrated, has used it in a stanza of charming simplicity: Un guerrier per alegrar vuelh comensar, car m’agensa que non lo dey plus celar, trop l’auray tengut en pensa; e guerrejaray d’amor, endomens que ma guerrieira a trobat guerrejador que guerreja volontieira. Rims crozatz are found, to quote but one instance, in the two quatrains of a sonnet. These are the principal divisions of rhyme in its relations to a single stanza. But the troubadours employed it also to keep up a certain connection between several, sometimes all, the different stanzas of a poem; and in this respect it must now be considered.