Like the Meistersingers, they gave singular titles to their songs and metres.

A verse was called a _Regel_; a strophe, a _Clause_; and a burden or refrain, a _Stockregel_.

If a half-verse closed as a strophe, it was a _Steert_, or tail.

_Tafel-spelen_, and _Spelen van Sinne_, were the titles of the dramatic exhibitions; and the rhymed invitation to these was called a _Charte_, or _Uitroep_ (outcry).

_Ketendichten_ (chain-poems) are short poems in which the last word of each line rhymes with the first of the line following; _Scaekberd_ (checkerbourd), a poem of sixty-four lines, so rhymed, that in every direction it forms a strophe of eight lines; and _Dobbel-steert_ (double-tail), a poem in which a double rhyme closes each line.