List: Rondeau

Rondeau

A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR . Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R). A refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).

• Beating Hearts

  Beating Hearts
  O beating hearts are everything

  20 lines, 15 comments, on Mar 19 8:20 AM 2007
• Isaiah 40:31

  Isaiah 40:31 / Rondeau
  

  18 lines, 10 comments, on Apr 5 10:25 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Thoughts
• Psalm 17

  Psalm 17 / Rondeau

  19 lines, 9 comments, on May 27 7:50 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Rondeau

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