Rondeau

Entertainment / Music / Rondeau: Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with courtly love texts.
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Rondeau Redoublé

Lifestyle / Poetry / Rondeau Redoublé: five quatrains and a closing quintain, using two rhymes. The first quatrain consists of four refrain lines that are used, in sequence, as the last lines of the next four quatrains: and the last line o MORE

Rondeau Redoublé

Life Style / Poetry / Rondeau Redoublé: five quatrains and a closing quintain, using two rhymes. The first quatrain consists of four refrain lines that are used, in sequence, as the last lines of the next four quatrains: and the last line o MORE

Fixed Forms

Entertainment / Music / Fixed Forms: Group of forms, especially in medieval France, in which the poetic structure determines musical repetitions. See also ballade, rondeau, virelai. MORE

Rondel

Entertainment / Literature / Rondel: A short poem resembling the rondeau. It usually totals fourteen lines containing only two rhyming sounds. The first two lines are repeated at the middle of the poem and again at the end. The rondel di MORE

Roundel

Entertainment / Literature / Roundel: A poem in the pattern of the rondeau, but only having eleven lines. Like the rondeau and the rondel, the roundel uses only two rhymes and a twice-repeated refrain. Cf. Rondeau, rondel, roundelay, vill MORE

Roundelay

Entertainment / Literature / Roundelay: A term used as a generic label for fixed forms of poetry using limited rhymes--such as the rondeau, rondel, and roundel. The word roundelay can be used in reference to the musical background (setting) MORE