Rondelet

The Rondelet (or roundelay) is a brief French form of poetry. It consists of one stanza, made up of seven lines. It contains a refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern.

The word is the diminutive of rondel, a similar, longer verse form. This is the basic structure:

Line 1 :: A—four syllables

Line 2 :: b—eight syllables

Line 3 :: A—repeat of line one

Line 4 :: a—eight syllables

Line 5 :: b—eight syllables

Line 6 :: b—eight syllables

Line 7 :: A—repeat of line one

The refrained lines should contain the same words, however substitution or different use of punctuation on the lines has been common.

AUTHOR'S NOTE:  I Take exception to Wikipeia's inclusion of "Roundelay" as a synonym.

It is a completely different form to be documented in this blog.

Pasted from <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondelet>

The Rondelet is a French form consisting of a single septet with two rhymes and one refrain: AbAabbA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The refrain is written in tetra-syllabic or dimeter and the other lines are twice as long - octasyllabic or tetrameter.

Pasted from <http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/rondelet.html>

Note the SP allows line-length variance.

The Rondelet  is a brief French form of poetry. It consists of one stanza, made up of seven lines. It contains a refrain, a strict rhyme scheme and a distinct meter pattern.

The word is the diminutive of rondel, a similar, longer verse form. This is the basic structure:

Syllabic    4/8/4/8/8/8/4

Rhymed  A  b A a  b  b  A

Where A is the refrain

The refrained lines should contain the same words, however substitution or different use of punctuation on the lines has been common.

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