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).
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Death is new seed. It comes down in the tears we bleed.28 lines, 2 comments, on May 9 3:09 PM
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