The rondeau redoublé is a French poetic form composed of 25 lines with only 2 rhymes, whole repeating lines, and a hemstitch.
The lines of the first stanza reappear in order as the final lines of the next four stanzas. The hemstitch appears as a half-line at the very end of the poem. Each stanza rhymes either abab or baba.
Here's one example of the form.
When I'm first working with a new poetic form, I use a guide like this. You can download my template if you want to try it.
Want to know more about the roundeau redoublé? Check out this comprehensive bit of background Kelly Fineman shared at Writing and Ruminating.
I hope you'll join me this week in writing a rondeau redoublé. Please share a link to your poem or the poem itself in the comments.
Does it need to be 8 syllables per line? I found an amusing one by Dorothy Parker: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/44836 Hers is 10 syllables, at least in first couple of lines. I might give it a whirl if the multitude of rules don't make my head swirl.
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Rondeau Redoublé
ReplyDeleteOut of the corner of my eye
just beyond my view,
someone's asking why,
like something I have failed to do.
Someone whom I always knew,
something I cannot not deny,
I strain but cannot grasp a clue
out of the corner of my eye.
Always forever, asking why
I failed somehow to follow true
to course. Sad enough it's heard to sigh
just beyond my view.
I know I've given less in lieu
of that which bye and bye
could be lover. ever new,
someone's asking why.
It has been I choose not pry
into that which reaches through
the veil before I die.
Like something I have failed to do?
That which I might ever rue
should I fail to spy,
the very one I'd wish to bid adieu
or carry with me high
out of the corner.
copyright 2016 Judith Robinson all rights reserved.
Thanks for the template. I am working on one but I haven't gotten it yet. It's floating around in my brain.
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