Crossword clues for rondelet
Wiktionary
n. A metric verse (form), modeled after the rondeau, in two rhymes over seven lines, the first (in four syllables) being repeated as third and refrain (final one), each other line having eight syllables
WordNet
n. a shorter form of rondeau
Wikipedia
The Rondelet 1 is a brief French form of poetry. It contains a refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern.
The Roundelay 2 is a 24 line poem written in trochaic tetrameter. What they have in common is that they both only use two rhyme sounds, and make use of refrains. Both can be found documented on the PoetsCollective.org, where Lawrence Eberhart, a director of the International Poetry Fellowship has spent the past two years cross-referencing specifications and examples found on the World Wide Web. For most poetry forms so identified, conflicts are pointed out, and visual template examples are provided.
The word is the diminutive of rondel, a similar, longer verse form. 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.
Rondelet is a French surname. Notable persons with that surname include:
- Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566), French professor of medicine
- Jean-Baptiste Rondelet (1743–1829), French architectural theorist
Usage examples of "rondelet".
Piet had narrowed the viewscreen field to the image of the planet alone, since a spherical panorama was useless on this scale, but even so Rondelet was no more than a cloud-streaked blue bead.
They held reaction mass brought from Rondelet on purpose-built tankers.
On Rondelet your featherboat comes in low, eliminates the defense battery, and the larger ships drop down and finish the job.
Carstensen must have sent a warship from Rondelet to check out the report.
There was no place to fly on Umber, but the ships of the Earth Convoy were equipped for worlds like Rondelet and Biruta, where solid ground was scattered in patches of a few hectares each.