So Many Forms, So Little Time (PE 2011)

Rondelet Wk 26

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Rondelet



Poetry Kaleidoscope: Guide to Poetry - Rondelet

The Rondelet is a brief French form of poetry. It consists of one stanza, made up of seven lines. It contains a refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern. The word is from the diminutive of rondel, meaning round. This is the basic structure:

Line 1 :: A -- four syllables

Line 2 :: b -- eight syllables

Line 3 :: A -- repeat of line one

Line 4 :: a -- eight syllables

Line 5 :: b -- eight syllables

Line 6 :: b -- eight syllables

Line 7 :: A -- repeat of line one

The refrained lines should contain the same words, however - substitution or different use of punctuation on the lines has been common.

For the complete article see: http://www.languageisavirus.com/poetry-guide/rondelet.html

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Rondelet

The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic
or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long - octasyllabic or tetrameter.

From: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/rondelet.html