rondeau

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A monophonic song with a 2-part refrain
A fixed form of verse based on two rhyme sounds and consisting usually of 13 lines in three stanzas with the opening words of the first line of the first stanza used as an independent refrain after the second and third stanzas
{n} a kind of ancient poetry
a mainly octosyllabic poem consisting of between ten and fifteen lines, having only two rhymes and with the opening words used twice as an unrhyming refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas The ten-line version rhymes abbaabC abbaC (where the capital C stands for the refrain) The fifteen-line version often rhymes aabba aabC aabbaC Chaucer's "Now welcome, summer" at the close of The Parliament of Fowls is an example of a thirteen-line rondeau Rondeau redoublé: five quatrains and a closing quintain, using two rhymes The first quatrain consists of four refrain lines that are used, in sequence, as the last lines of the next four quatrains; and the last line of the closing quintain is a phrase from the first refrain Dorothy Parker has a delightful poem entitled after the form itself, and keeping strictly to its very taxing rules
a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
One of several formes fixes (fixed forms) in French lyric poetry and song of the 14th-15th century, later popular with many English poets. The rondeau has only two rhymes (allowing no repetition of rhyme words) and consists of 13 or 15 lines of 8 or 10 syllables divided into three stanzas. The beginning of the first line of the first stanza serves as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
A musical style popular with the Troubadours characterised as a song with a refrain The rondel and virelai are two types of rondeaux and are considered to have been dances
See Rondo, 1
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
A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule
(French, "Little circle'): a short poem consisting of ten, thirteen, or fifteen lines using only two rhymes We can see an example of the rondeau in the following poem from Austin Dobson's With Pipe and Flute
A rondeau
rondle
rondeau

    الواصلة

    ron·deau

    التركية النطق

    rändō

    النطق

    /ränˈdō/ /rɑːnˈdoʊ/

    علم أصول الكلمات

    [ 'rän-(")dO, rän-'dO ] (noun.) 1525. From French rondeau.
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