The reason hard boiled eggs dont last as long as raw eggs is that in cooking the eggs, a natural protective chemical layer (produced by the mother hen) is washed off the porous eggshell, allowing germs to enter. Source(s): http://cookery.newarchaeology.com/how_lo... sugarice82 Â· 9 years ago.
Freebase(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: Song cycle. A song cycle is a group of songs designed to be performed in a sequence as a single entity. As a rule, all of the songs are by the same composer and often use words from the same poet or lyricist.
lyric poem, lyric-a short poem of songlike quality. rondel, rondeau-a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas. sonnet-a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme.