The Short Rondel might better be described as a short Rondeau than Rondel because this form uses the rentrement or first phrase of L1 as a refrain rather than the full line as in the Rondel.
The Short Rondel is: ○ a poem in 11 lines made up of sixain followd by a quintain. ○ isosyllabic, often 8 syllalbe lines, except for L6 & L11 which are the shorter first phrase of L1. ○ rhymed, rhyme scheme aabbcC ddeeC.
r r r C x x x a x x x x x x x a x x x x x x x b x x x x x x x b r r r C x x x x x x x d x x x x x x x d x x x x x x x e x x x x x x x e r r r C
Pasted from Poetry Magnum Opus, with thanks to Judi Van Gorder for years of work on this fine PMO resource.
My Example
Form: Short Rondel
I Walk My Dog
I walk my dog to let him pee on damn near every pole we see. We do not walk to get somewhere, before we started we were there. In bright sunshine and in the fog I walk my dog.
He’s introduced me to new folk with whom we now will stop and joke. The children love my little guy and that is really part of why I walk my dog.
The Rondeau Prime is a short variation of the Rondeau originating in 13th century France. It allows more rhyme than the Rondeau, but incorporates its defining feature of the integration of the rentrement. (opening phrase of the first line which is repeated as a refrain.)
The Rondeau Prime is: ○ in French syllabic, in English tends to be iambic meter, line length is optional as long as the lines are relatively equal, with the exception of the shorter rentrement. ○ 12 lines, made up of a septet (7 lines) followed by a cinquain (5 lines). ○ rhymed, rhyme scheme abbccbR abbaR, R being the rentrement.
Wind on the Terrace
A leaf in the wind taps the pane, reminding me that you have gone. Although my busy days move on, it is small moments that I miss, a gesture, glance, a touch, a kiss. You went away before the dawn, a leaf in the wind.
I watch the clouds bring in the rain, the tears that fall and splash upon the terrace of a time withdrawn, the sound repeating your refrain, a leaf in the wind.
Type: Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement Description: Two-part French form that is isosyllabic except for the shorter refrains. The refrain is the first part of the first line. Origin: French Schematic: (Ra)bbaabR abbaR
R = refrain and first part of first line. Line/Poem Length: 12
Specifications restated, The Rondeau Prime is: A 12 line poem of French origin, (variation of the Rondeau) Syllabic in French, often iambic in English Isosyllabic lines, except for the shorter refrain lines Rhyme Scheme: (Ra)bbaabR abbaR, where R is the first part of the first line and becomes the refrain.
My Example (Form: Rondeau Prime)
If Pigs Could Fly
If pigs could fly men would have had another bacon source of course and fought their wars on pig and horse, and knights courting their maidens fair would routinely arrive by air (and no-fly zones would be in force), if pigs could fly.
Demand for goats would rise a tad as farmers would of course endorse a new refuse disposal source. My backyard mud-hole would be rad if pigs could fly.
• Double Rondeau is simply doubling the pattern of the Rondeau. It can either be doubled in sequence (1 Rondeau following another Rondeau) or the like stanzas could be doubled and paired.
○ A 30 line poem made up of a quintain, quartain, sixain, the same order repeated a second time or a 30 line poem made up of 2 quitains followed by 2 quatrains and ending with 2 sixains.
○ metric, iambic tetrameter accept for the refrain which is iambic dimeter.
○ All stanzas end with a rentrement.
○ rhymed using either 2 or 4 rhymes. aabba aabR aabbaR aabba aabR aabbaR or aabba aabba aabR aabR aabbaR aabbaR or aabba ccddR aabR ccdR aabbaR ccddcR or aabba aabR aabbaR ccddR ccdR ccddcR.
○ Whether the poem is turned on 2 or 4 rhymes, the rentrement would remain the half line from the first line of the poem to be consistent throughout the poem especially when it is sequential (1 Rondeau pattern following another Rondeau pattern.) There could be 2 rentraments which alternate from the 1st line of each of the 1st and 2nd quintains when the like stanzas are paired.
Here comes my dad, I hear the sleigh. I think the horses know the way. It’s quiet when they run on snow. They’ll pick us up, then we can go to grandma’s house for Christmas day.
It’s such a pleasant winter day, no chilling wind that used to blow. We picked a perfect day you know. Here comes my dad.
My grandpa said to come and play. If grandpa says so, it’s okay. I have a pheasant I must show to him before it’s plucked, you know. The mare smells us, I heard her neigh. Here comes my dad.
That time has passed. The years have flown, and my own children now have grown. I am a grandpa now, of course though from my wife I’m long divorced. That time has passed.
I’m in the city, quite alone, with Facebook and a telephone. and now I do not own a horse. That time has passed.
The city’s all concrete and stone and neighbors are not really known. The Christmas spirit’s lost its force. For what’s not here I have remorse, but now I’m way too old to moan, that time has passed.
Lilt – An invented form created by Mary Lou Healy, aka Mlou of Allpoetry
It is: A 16 LINE poem, consisting of four quatrain stanzas Accentual with odd lines of each stanza having 3 stressed syllable and even lines having two stressed syllables Rhyme Scheme: abab cdcd efef ghgh Rentrement requirement: The 2nd line of each stanza becomes part of the first line of the next stanza and the 2nd Line of the final stanza, is the first part of the first Stanza’s first line.
This form employs a rentrement or rentrament (fr.) which is the repetition of a phrase from one line as a line elsewhere in the poem. The device is also found in the Rondeau and English Ballet.
Note, while only the number of stressed syllable in a line is important, The poet may get there using any metric scheme, or none.
NEW: After I had posted my double Lilt, the inventor has decided to allow unlimited Lilts to be strung together as a single poem, if the author observes the rule of linking the final stanza in the poem, to the first line of the poem.
My Example
Emptying the Hall ( A double Lilt)
It is madness, don’t you think, and not too nice to deposit one old pickle when the dictionary called for beans or spice and the hostess seems so fickle?
To deposit one old pickle on the plate when three cucumbers were ordered could upset the wild old chef – who exhales hate; then he’ll have you drawn and quartered.
When three cucumbers were ordered – don’t be bragging, (you add vinegar and cukes.) and it’s gibberish, methinks, but tongues are wagging. and they’re betting the chef pukes.
You add vinegar and cukes into your salsa. It is madness, don’t you think, To be serving things that crunch with forks of balsa? I for one was tickled pink.
The party’s done and now The story’s told and Morse code tells them how you were so bold.
The story’s told in print your name’s revealed. I never gave a hint; my lips are sealed.
Your name’s revealed in spurting and fractured prose can’t leave a poet hurting, I don’t suppose.
And fractured prose re-runs! The party’s done. The bread and buttered buns I thought were fun.
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