What shall I weave for thee—what shall I spin— Rondel, or rondeau, or virelai?
The triolet is a sort of abbreviation of the second variety of rondeau.
My old friend Gershom has very slyly written a rondeau to me.
The rondeau was much cultivated by the French poet, Clment Marot.
Villon has varied the rondeau so as to use for a refrain a single syllable.
This he followed by English versions of the rondel, rondeau and villanelle.
I will make that all right, and what's the French chap's name—Boileau, rondeau, eh?
rondeau was deposed and Lavalleja assumed the reins of power.
The rondeau is not in Lescurel systematised into any regular form.
She read the rondeau, scrawled in pencil on the back of a bill.
1520s, from Middle French rondeau, from Old French rondel "short poem" (see rondel). Metrical form of 10 or 13 lines with only two rhymes.
