Complaint

A Complaint is "a lament or satiric attack on social evils, such as Chaucer's 'Complaint to his Purse," the opening of the Wakefield Master's 'Second Shepherd's Play,' or Shakespeare's 'A Lover's Complaint.'"<"Complaint," Ian Lancashire, Glossary of Poetic Terms, Representative Poetry Online, UToronto.ca, Web, July 19, 2011..