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Poetic form used by Chaucer
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rondeau
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rondeau \Ron*deau"\, n. [F. See Roundel .] [Written also rondo .] 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. Note: When the rondeau ...
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A rondeau (plural rondeaux ) is a form of medieval and Renaissance French poetry , as well as the corresponding musical chanson form. Together with the ballade and the virelai it was considered one of the three formes fixes , and one of the verse forms ...
Usage examples of rondeau.
Daisies, being among the simpler flowers, characteristically employ a rough sort of octosyllabic doggerel, but more evolved species, especially those in the tropics, can produce sestinas, rondeaux, and villanelles of the highest order.
At the moment he is with the boy Ramel, presumably on the Rondeau Plateau.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
Minister of Defence Production, who had spent most of his life as a lumber grader and woods manager for the Ross Seigniory at St Gilles, Quebec, described his role in Ottawa politics during an interview with Guy Rondeau, of the Canadian Press.
She began with poetry, recalling in ballades and rondeaux her happiness as a wife and mourning her sorrows as a widow.
Even his slight perfection in an age Of limping triolets and tame rondeaux.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
His savage abuse and open ridicule of the neatly phrased rondeaux and sestinas and chansonettes of the little magazines was to her mind a wanton and uncalled-for cruelty.
Ready to turn out poetry for any occasion—a total of 1,675 ballades, 661 rondeaux, 80 virelais, 14 lays, and miscellaneous pieces—he now described in verse the “strongholds for men of valor” in Coucy’s many castles of St.
De Banville's skill in reviving old forms of verse--triolets, rondeaux, chants royaux, and ballades.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Ballades by the score with the same old thought: The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished.
If we can get Dafne, we can probably get Rondeau and Bunde, ’cause they pretty much do what she suggests.
They could also hear Heriot calling to Rondeau to bring bottles and glasses, and vaguely they marveled what Rondeau's attitude might be like at this moment.