rondel
nounA 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.
nounA rounded or circular object.
nounA poem in a fixed form, borrowed from the French, and consisting of thirteen lines on two rimes.
nounA small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
nounSame as
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.
nounA
A poem in the above form.
nounThe verse form