Category:Rondeau

Ron*deau", n. Etym: [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.

Note: 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.)

Defn: see rondo,1.