Look up: Rondel

1. Rondel
   Another poem of French origin, normally consisting of fourteen lines, but with only two rhymes. The first and second, seventh and eighth, and thirteenth and fourteenth lines are the same. The most common rhyme scheme is: A-B-b-a-a-b-A-B-a-b-b-a-A-B.
   Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of
   
   
2. Rondel
   Ron'del noun [ Confer Rondeau , Roundel .] 1. (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. [ Obsolete] 2. [ French] (a) Same as Rondeau . (b) Specifically, a particular form o...
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/91
   
   
3. Rondel
   • (n.) Same as Rondeau. • (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion. • (n.) 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 thir...
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
4. rondel
   a fixed poetic form that runs on two rhymes. It is a variant of the rondeau.
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/r/65
   
   
5. rondel
   poetic forms of 11-14 lines where the first two lines are repeated in the middle and at the end, and that have only two rhymes. Algernon Charles Swinburne's 'The Roundel' consists of eleven lines, two stanzas, where the first two lines are repeated, the second time at the poem's end.
   Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r
   
   
6. Rondel
   Meaning small circle. In architecture, a curved panel or window recess. (Also Roundel)
   Found on http://www.artisansofthevalley.com/comm_
   
   
7. Rondel
   `Rondel` (from Old French, the diminutive of roont "round", meaning "small circle") may refer to:
   
   

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