Аннотация:The subject of this essay is the historical connection between a strophic structure of Mozarabic zajal and wide range of rhyming schemes in Roman stanzas at 12th and 13th centuries. The form of zajal was assigned to be an origin of some “zajalesque” forms in national poetries, such as Provencal retroencha, French rotrouange, Gallego-Portuguese “cantiga de refram” and Italian lauda. In this essay a special attention is paid to the influence of zajal on lyrics of troubadours, through the strophic schemes of Guilhem de Poitieu to its modifications of Aquitaine, Provencal and Catalonian poets.