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)]