Why Troubadour poetry is lyric poetry

Although Troubador poetry and Greek Lyric poetry are very different in some ways, Troubador poetry should still be considered lyric poetry.  A lot of times in Troubador poetry devotion to a beloved is a common theme and so too in Lyric poetry.  For example in A Love Afar by Jaufre Rudel is all about a beloved that is far away and cannot actually be had.  Unlike Greek poetry is has a specific rhyme scheme and there is something very lyrical about that aspect of this poem even though it isn’t something that is normally sung.  Furthermore, this poem makes references to nature regarding love similar to those that appear in traditional lyric poetry.  For example:

“No sweet birds’ song, no flowering briar/ Content me more than winter’s chill”. 

These lines are explaining how Rudel likes the winter better because everything that has to do with spring reminds him of his love afar that he can never be with.   In addition, like in other lyric poetry, Rudel asks the gods for help:

“Such tracks and trails, such land and sea,/ Lie still between my love and me/ that all must lie in God’s good will”. 

He is leaving it up to God to help him find his love which is what the Greeks do to.  However it seems here that Rudel is praying to one god as opposed to the Greeks who prayed to many.