rondeau

One of several formes fixes (fixed forms) in French lyric poetry and song of the 14th–15th century, later popular with many English poets. The rondeau has only two rhymes (allowing no repetition of rhyme words) and consists of 13 or 15 lines of 8 or 10 syllables divided into three stanzas. The beginning of the first line of the first stanza serves as the refrain of the second and third stanzas.

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• Rondeau (poetry), a form of French poetry
• Rondo, a musical form from the 18th century to the present, also spelt 'rondeau'
• Rondeau (music), a medieval and early Renaissance musical form distinct from the 18th century rondo
• Jane Rondeau, the wife of Claudius Rondeau, an English minister in St Petersburg in 1720-1739. Her "Lettres (sic) of a Lady who resided some years in Russia", are "one of the best sources" on Anna of Russia
• Jean Rondeau, French racer and constructor who won the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans on his own car
• José Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra, a general and politician in Argentina and Uruguay in the early 19th century
• Noah John Rondeau, an Adirondack hermit
• Jim Rondeau, a politician in Manitoba, Canada
• Rondeau Provincial Park, in southwestern Ontario
• Rondeau, a type of cooking pot