[Occitan literary term] In Old Occitan literature, a tornada (lang, lang; `turned, twisted`) refers to a final, shorter stanza (or cobla) that appears in lyric poetry and serves a variety of purposes within several poetic forms. The word tornada derives from the Old Occitan in which it is the feminine form of tornat, a past participle of th... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornada_(Occitan_literary_term)