A Rondeau is a form of French poetry with 13 lines written on two rhymes, as well as a corresponding musical form developed to set this characteristic verse structure. It was one of the three formes fixes (the other two were the ballade and the virelai), and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th and the 15th centuries.
The rondeau is a form of verse also used in English language poetry. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a certain stylized pattern. It was customarily regarded as a challenge to arrange for these refrains to contribute to the meaning of the poem in as succinct and poignant a manner as possible. The rondeau consists of thirteen lines of eight syllables, plus two refrains (which are half lines, each of four syllables), employing, altogether, only three rhymes. It has three stanzas (or verses) and its rhyme scheme is as follows: (1) A A B B A (2) A A B with refrain: C (3) A A B B A with concluding refrain: C.
A Rondeau is also a baroque dance, often incorporated into a suite. Its origins are French.
The word is also used to refer to another later musical form, also known as rondo.
In poetry the rondeau is a short metrical structure which in its perfect form consists of thirteen eightor ten-syllabled verses divided into three strophes of unequal length, and knit together by two rhymes and a refrain.
In Clement Marot's time the laws of the rondeau were laid down, and, according to Voiture, in the 17th century, the following was the type of the approved form of the rondeau: "Ma foy, c'est fait de moy, car Isabeau M'a conjure de luy faire un Rondeau: Cela me met en une peine extreme.
The rondeau is, however, an inimitable instrument of gaiety and grace in the hands of a skilful poet.
In 2002, the Mayor and Council of Chatham-Kent is 100% supportive of the current petition to have cottages remain as a prime example of a sustainable, renewable and low-impact use of natural resources within a park.
Rondeau Park is identified by a Price-Waterhouse Coopers report as "the #1 tourist attraction in Chatham-Kent" due largely to the cottagers and the visitors they attract, numbering approximately 180,000 per year.
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