rondeau

An Old French verse form of 13 or 15 (usually octosyllabic) lines, in three stanzas, using only two rhymes. It was popular in 16th-c France, and among the French Romantics (eg de Musset), and was imported into England in the late 19th-c (eg by Dobson, Swinburne).

Rondeau may mean:

Rondeau (poetry), a form of French poetry Rondo, a musical form from the 18th century to the present, also spelt 'Rondeau' Jean Rondeau, French racer and constructor who won the 1980 24 Hours of Le Mans on his own car José Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra, a general and politician in Argentina and Uruguay in the early 19th century. Jim Rondeau, a politician in Manitoba, Canada Rondeau Provincial Park, in southwestern Ontario Rondeau (dance), a French baroque dance, often incorporated into a suite Rondeau (music) is a form of medieval and early Renaissance music

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