rondel
/ˈrɒnd(ə)l
/noun
A rondeau, especially one of three stanzas of thirteen or fourteen lines with a two line refrain.We are still writing sonnets, villanelles, sestinas, even pantoums and triolets, ballades and rondels, as well as inventing ‘nonce’ forms to suit our uses....
- Does it matter whether one writes villanelles, rondels, sestinas or kyrielles?
- Like all the poems in the cycle, it is cast as a rondel, with an ironic (here italicised) refrain.
Origin
Middle English: from Old French, from rond 'round'; compare with roundel.
Rhymes
- scenery
- scenery-chewing
- scene-setter
- scene-setting
- scene-shifter
- scene-shifting
- scenes-of-crime
- scene-steal
- scene-stealer
- scene-stealing
- scenester
- scene work
- scenic
- scenical
- scenically
- scenic artist
- scenic games
- scenic railway
- scenic reserve
- scenic route
- Scenicruiser
- scenist
- Scenite
- scenograph
- scenographer