Honing the Craft

Verse Form: Rondeau  

The Rondeau was narrowed to the poetic verse form we know today by the 17th century. The elements of the Rondeau are:
         1. a 15 line poem made up of a quintain, followed by a quatrain and ending in a sixain.
         2. syllabic, L9 & L15 are 4 syllables each and all other lines are 8 syllables each. In English it is usually metered, most often iambic tetrameter except the refrain which is iambic dimeter.
         3. composed with rentrement, a refrain repeated from the opening phrase of the poem.
         4. rhymed, using only 2 rhymes except for the refrain being unrhymed, rhyme scheme aabba, aabR, aabbaR (R being the refrain)
         5. a vehicle for serious verse, unlike the Triolet or Rondel which originate from the same source but tend to be lighter verse.

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