Look up: rondeau

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   Rondeau
   Usually a fifteen line poem, of French origin, composed of three uneven length stanzas. It features a refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas which is taken from the first line of the poem. There is also a ten line version of the rondeau.
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   rondeau
   [n] - a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes
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   Rondeau
   Ron·deau' noun [ French See Roundel .] [ Written also rondo .] 1. 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. » When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the r ...
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   rondeau
   rondel noun a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes; the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the second and third stanzas
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   Rondeau
   `Rondeau` may mean: *Rondeau (poetry), a form of French poetry *Rondo, a musical form from the 18th century to the present, also spelt 'rondeau' *Rondeau (music), a medieval and early Renaissance musical form distinct from the 18th century rondo *Rondeau (dance), a French baroque dance *Jean Rondeau, French racer and constructor who won the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans on his own car *José Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra, a general and politician in Argenti...
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   Rondeau
   • (n.) 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. • (n.) See Rondo, 1.
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   rondeau
   one of several formes fixes (`fixed forms`) in French lyric poetry and song of the 14th and 15th centuries. The full form of a rondeau consists of ... [7 related articles]
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   rondeau
   a mainly octosyllabic poem consisting of between ten and fifteen lines, having only two rhymes and with the opening words used twice as an unrhyming refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas. The ten-line version rhymes abbaabC abbaC (where the capital C stands for the refrain). The fifteen-line version often rhymes aabba aabC aabbaC. Chau...
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