| It was more simply turned, however, than was the general cast of the sirventes, and rather resembled the lai of a Norman minstrel. |
| The terza rima form that he used may have derived from the sirventes genre of Occitan poetry used by the troubadours, notably Bertran de Born, the favourite of Ezra Pound. |
| Bonfaci Calvo, the troubadour from Genoa, combined Occitan, Galician, and French in a sirventes. |
