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Definitions for: Rondel [n] 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
Webster (1913) Definition: Ron"del, n. [Cf. Rondeau, Roundel.]
1. (Fort.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a
bastion. [Obs.]
2. [F.]
(a) Same as Rondeau.
(b) Specifically, a particular form of rondeau containing
fourteen lines in two rhymes, the refrain being a
repetition of the first and second lines as the
seventh and eighth, and again as the thirteenth and
fourteenth. --E. W. Gosse.
Synonyms: rondeau
See Also: poem, rondelet, roundel, verse form
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