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  Poetry
Poetry, the art of creating poems, also known as verse, may be defined in opposition to prose, which is language which is meant to convey meaning, with lesser emphasis on mood, word choice, and exact form of expression.
Poetry is as old as human speech and is a compressed form of speech (and song) in an imaginative manner that at its best evokes and releases human emotions and intuition.
Also, the vocabulary of poetry tends to be larger and more obscure than that of prose, because poets are apt to take greater liberties with the language and to retain old words and invent new words in order to express themselves within the structure of their poetry.
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 Rondeau - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In poetry the rondeau is a short metrical structure which in its perfect form consists of thirteen eightor ten-syllabled verses divided into three strophes of unequal length, and knit together by two rhymes and a refrain.
In Clement Marot's time the laws of the rondeau were laid down, and, according to Voiture, in the 17th century, the following was the type of the approved form of the rondeau: "Ma foy, c'est fait de moy, car Isabeau M'a conjure de luy faire un Rondeau: Cela me met en une peine extreme.
The rondeau is, however, an inimitable instrument of gaiety and grace in the hands of a skilful poet.
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 YOUR POETRY DOT COM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Poetry in which the visual appearance is part of the meaning.
A poetic composition in which a series of heroic achievements or events, usually of a hero, is dealt with at length as a continuous narrative in elevated style.
A strict poetry form of six unrhymed stanzas of six lines each followed by a 3 line envoy.
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 Poetry - Gurupedia
Poetry can be differentiated most of the time from prose, which is language meant to convey meaning in a more expansive and less condensed way, frequently using more complete logical or narrative structures than poetry does.
A further complication is that prose poetry combines the characteristics of poetry with the superficial appearance of prose.
In pre-literate societies, poetry was frequently employed as a means of recording oral history, storytelling (epic poetry), genealogy, law and other forms of expression or knowledge that modern societies might expect to be handled in prose.
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 rondo - definition by dict.die.net
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.
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 Rondeau Family
Rondeau was originally the French generic term for all fixed verse patterns that derived from dance-rounds, in which music was accompanied by call-and-response singing; a leader usually sang a verse and everyone joined in on the refrain.
Through the years, poets were seldom as reverent of "established" patterns as we conservatives are today; they felt free to vary, adapt and recreate.
The oldest of the Rondeau Family originated in 13th century France.
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 Virelai
A virelai is a form of medieval French verse used often in poetry and music.
It is one of the three formes fixes (the others were the ballade and the rondeau), and was one of the most common verse forms set to music in Europe from the late 13th to the 15th centuries.
By the mid-15th century, the form had become largely divorced from music, and numerous examples of this form (as well as the ballade and the rondeau) were written, which were either not intended to be set to music, or for which the music has not survived.
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 Rondeau
A Rondeau is a form of French poetry with 13 lines written on two rhymes.
A Rondeau is also a baroque dance, often incorporated into a suite.
The word is also used to refer to a musical form[?], also known as rondo.
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 Rondeau
A Rondeau is a form of French poetry with 13 lines written on two rhymes, as well as a corresponding musical form developed to set this characteristic verse structure.
It was one of the three formes fixes (the other two were the ballade and the virelai), and one of the verse forms in France most commonly set to music between the late 13th and the 15th centuries.
It was customarily regarded as a challenge to arrange for these refrains to contribute to the meaning of the poem in as succinct and poignant a manner as possible.
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 Rondeau (poetry) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Rondeau is a form of French poetry with 15 lines written on two rhymes, as well as a corresponding musical form developed to set this characteristic verse structure.
The rondeau is a form of verse also used in English language poetry.
It has three stanzas and its rhyme scheme is as follows: (1) A A B B A (2) A A B with refrain: C (3) A A B B A with concluding refrain C. The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rondeau_(poetry)   (361 words)

  
 Forms of Poetry - PoetrySoup
Poetry that certain letters, usually the first in each line form a word or message when read in a sequence.
Poetry which holds the principles and ideals of beauty that are characteristic of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and literature.
Cowboy poetry is rhymed, metered verse written by someone who has lived a significant portion of his or her life in Western North American cattle culture.
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 Poetry 1: Introduction to Poetry
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen during a moment.
Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.
In poetry, great attention is paid to the sounds of words ˜ the combination of actual consonants and vowels and the rhythms.
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 Poetry Form - The Rondeau
The Rondeau's name and form derive from the French rondel, which comes from the French rond ("round").
There, from the late 13th century into the 15th century, poetry of this form was often set to music.
Thus the pattern of line-repetition in a 15-line Rondeau is as follows.
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 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Poetic Form: Rondeau
The rondeau began as a lyric form in thirteenth-century France, popular among medieval court poets and musicians.
The rondeau’s form is not difficult to recognize: as it is known and practiced today, it is composed of fifteen lines, eight to ten syllables each, divided stanzaically into a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet.
Modern rondeaus are often playful; for example, "Rondel" by Frank O’Hara begins with this mysterious directive: "Door of America, mention my fear to the cigars," which becomes the poem’s refrain.
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 Poetry on the Peaks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
I began, at Sandra's suggestion, by sharing some impressionistic remarks of the climb, which worked well since it gave everyone a goof introduction to who we were and why we were making the climb in the IYM, while detailing the program's worldwide effort.
kept a diary, which contains entries on everything from Classical music (Rondeau was a violinist) to meditations and observations on wildlife, especially birds, to the ever-burgeoning development of his beloved land by "robber-barons" and their "government shills".
Rondeau wrote passionately (this was his life) about how small cabins once occupied the heights that he called home, but how -- in his lifetime-- they became only "a few cellar holes and tumbled stone walls, remains among the dense stands of maple, beech, and hemlocks on the mountains of the north."
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 workshop issue 1
The scheme for the Rondeau is as follows: the first stanza should rhyme aabba, the second aabR: the R being the refrain selected from the first line.
I find it a real aid when writing formal poetry and use them not only for the Rondeau but also for Sonnets, Villanelles, etc. As you can see the syllable count is shown by dashes and the rhyme by a letter at the end of each line.
One of the problems with this type of poetry is that the refrain may take over, with the result that it appears to be tagged-on just for the sake of it: the real skill in producing good repetition is in blending the refrain lines with the body of the poem.
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 The Poets Garret
I find these forms of poetry challenging and enjoyable and it has been my experience that when challenges are issued in forums that poets are pleasantly surprised with the results.
Although there is a plethora of six line poetry forms, very rarely are any used in their own write Some are used as the Volte or turning point in an arguement or the contra statement, and are very often capable of standing alone.
He used it in so much of his poetry and it was a popular form competing with the emerging sonnet until it sank out of fashion in the 17th century.
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 Chapter Romancer <i>to</i> Rook of R by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)
A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright, giving the characters when taken together a round look.
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.
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.
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 RONDEAU (Ital. Rondo) - Online Information article about RONDEAU (Ital. Rondo)
laws of the rondeau were laid down, and, according to Voiture, in the 17th See also:
Quoy treize vers, huit en eau, cinq en ease.
Fischart; the German name for the form is rundum or ringel-gedicht.
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 Belle: Main Page
And although I may not be a luminous, looming star of the poetic heavens, I am content to settle in as a small glimmer of grace -- the tiniest petal or ash from a newly-flung star.
In my opinion poetry is an art one never quite masters, yet its contingents wield a myriad of universal talent in self-interpretations, expressions, and styles.
W i n t e r S u n (Rondeau) In the classic appeal of the French rondeau, bask in the winter sun of her sing-song refrains: "..the miracle of barren days in winter sun."
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 Rondeau
The rondeau, adopted by church musicians as an emotionally rich container, continued into the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Not only for spiritual worship, the rondeau was also used for devotion to secular subjects such as springtime, courtly love, and romance.
The standard literary rondeau is usually found as fifteen octo- or decasyllabic lines divided into three stanzas, a quintet, quatrain and sestet.
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 Forms of Poetry quiz -- free game
This form of poetry is usually unrhymed and has five lines structured 5,7,5,7,7.
The end words of each line of the first stanza recurr in rotating order throughout the poem, and again as the middle and end word of a concluding envoi.
This is a fairly new form of poetry and consists of five lines of one, two, three, four and ten syllables.
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A Rondeau is a French form with 15-lines divided into a quintet (five lines), quatrain (four lines), and sestet (six lines).
He was a pioneer in French poetry, influenced by the rapid succession of frames in the silent movies.
Concrete poetry is visual poetry that utilizes spatially structured words to convey the meaning of the poem.
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rondeau - Poetry form of fifteen lines in three stanzas, with only two rhymes, and a refrain.
rondel - a variation of the rondeau, where the first two lines are repeated as the last two lines of the following stanzas, the scheme being abba abab abbaa(b).
roundel - A form of rondeau with a rhyming scheme abaR bab abaR, with the first line of the first stanza used as the final line of the first and third stanzas.
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 The Orlando Consort : Poetry Competition
Win Mumm Cordon Rouge Champagne in the Orlando Consort Poetry Competition, with guest judges James Fenton (poet and writer), John Fuller (poet and novelist) and Susan Hitch (academic and broadcaster).
Guillaume de Machaut (d.1377) has been hailed as "the last great poet who was also a composer"; his poetry was greatly admired and imitated by many French poets and Geoffrey Chaucer.
Entries by e-mail should be sent to angus@orlandoconsort.com and should have the heading 'Machaut Poetry' in the 'subject' box.
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 Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Poetic Forms & Techniques
"As one of the world’s oldest poetic techniques, anaphora is used in much of the world’s religious and devotional poetry, including numerous Biblical Psalms."
"The literary equivalent of a collage, found poetry is often made from newspaper articles, street signs, graffiti, speeches, letters, or even other poems."
"Although poetry and mathematics often seem to be incompatible areas of study, OULIPO seeks to connect them."
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 General Studies Resources
Hardy, Thomas, The Convergence of the Twain, Poetry, Literature, p.
Hayden, Robert, The Ballad of Sue Ellen Westerfield, Poetry, Literature, p.
Herrick, Robert, Upon Julia's Clothes, Poetry, Literature, p.
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 Repeating Poetry Forms 1.
Some forms use a refrain or a repeating line such as the Rondeau or Rondel.
All of them are pleasant sounding forms and appear easy to write, but without exception are far more challenging to write than "conventional" rhyming poetry and perhaps this is why they have fallen out of fashion in this modern age of fast food, fast cars and fast poetry.
The purpose here is to reintroduce these oft forgotten forms and challenge you to try them and also to see if in that challenge there can be a little revival.
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 Poetry X » Poetry Archives » Dorothy Parker » "Rondeau Redoublé"
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 Mosaic Musings...interactive poetry & prose (Powered by Invision Power Board)
Short or fixed forms such as ballades, haiku, rondeau, sonnet, villanelle and poems inspired by these fixed forms are also welcome.
Free Verse Poetry for Critique -> Seren's Synapse
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