rondeau

• The rondeau was originally a French form, written on two rhymes with fifteen lines, using the first part of the first line as a refrain. —  LearnHub Activities
• In lyric poetry the free creative spirit had declined, but the technique of verse was elaborated and reduced to rule; ballade, chant royal, lai, virelai, rondeau were the established forms, and lyric verse was often used for matter of a didactic, moral, or satirical tendency. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• Ballade, rondeau, chanson, each is manipulated with the skill of a goldsmith setting his gems. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• Admirable also are the elegiac distichs of Watson's Hymn to the Sea Man whose deeds, to the doer, come back as thine own exhalations Into thy bosom return, weepings of mountain and vale Man with the cosmic fortunes and starry vicissitudes tangled Chained to the wheel of the world, blind with the dust of its speed Even as thou, O giant, whom trailed in the wake of her conquests Night's sweet despot draws, bound to her ivory car Of the French lyrical metres that have been imitated in English, mainly for lighter themes, the ballade and the rondeau are the most important. —  The Principles of English Versification
• It is true that he falls back on several popular subjects, whose meaning would be very easily grasped in Germany; and that he develops them, not quite in the strict form of a rondeau, as he pretends, but still with a certain method, so that apart from a few frolics, which are unintelligible without a programme, the whole has real musical unity. —  Musicians of To-Day

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