rondel

noun

A poem similar to a rondeau, having 13 or 14 lines with two rhymes throughout. The first and second lines reappear in the middle and at the end, although sometimes only the first line appears at the end.

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A rounded or circular object.

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A poem in a fixed form, borrowed from the French, and consisting of thirteen lines on two rimes.

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A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

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Same as Rondeau.

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Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a repetition of the first and second lines as the seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and fourteenth.

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A metric form of verse using two rhymes, usually fourteen 8- to 10-syllable lines in three stanzas, with the first lines of the first stanza returning as refrain of the next two.

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A poem in the above form.

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The verse form rondeau.