Definition of Rondiau
Rondeau, a form of short poem (originally French) which, as in the
15th century, usually consists of 13 lines, eight of which have one rhyme
and five another; is divided into three stanzas, the first line of the
rondeau forming the concluding line of the last two stanzas; Swinburne
has popularised it in modern times.
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Ron*deau" (?), n. [F. 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.
&fist; When the rondeau was called the rondel it was
mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the
rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the
approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses
with a refrain. Encyc. Brit.
2. (Mus.) See Rondo,
1.
Ron*deau" (?), n. [F. 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.
&fist; When the rondeau was called the rondel it was
mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the
rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the
approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses
with a refrain. Encyc. Brit.
2. (Mus.) See Rondo,
1.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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