[3] The poem comprises 1,486 decasyllable verses in 57 assonanced laisses; there is no shorter syllable lines (found in some of the other chansons concerning William).
[4] 63% of the lines are in direct discourse, which give this chanson a distinctly spoken character.
[5] It goes as follows: on returning home from a hunt, William learns that King Louis (Charlemagne's son) has forgotten him in the distribution of fiefs.
William reminds the king of his past service (as told in the chanson Li coronemenz Looïs), and he is eventually accorded the right to an expeditionary force to conquer Nîmes from the Saracens.
1 of the collected chansons about William of Orange published in The Hague by the Dutch scholar Jonkbloet.