ron·deau /ˈrɑn(ˌ)do, rɑnˈdo/
十[十三] 行詩
Ron·deau n. [Written also rondo.]
1. A species of lyric poetry so composed as to contain a refrain or repetition which recurs according to a fixed law, and a limited number of rhymes recurring also by rule.
Note: ☞ When the rondeau was called the rondel it was mostly written in fourteen octosyllabic lines of two rhymes, as in the rondels of Charles d'Orleans. . . . In the 17th century the approved form of the rondeau was a structure of thirteen verses with a refrain.
2. Mus. See Rondo, 1.
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rondeau
n 1: a musical form that is often the last movement of a sonata
[syn: rondo]
2: a French verse form of 10 or 13 lines running on two rhymes;
the opening phrase is repeated as the refrain of the
second and third stanzas [syn: rondel]
[also: rondeaux (pl)]