Rhythmic Beats: A Rondelet

Rhythmic Beats: A Rondelet
©2016 Rosemawrites@A Reading Writer

We’ll beat as one.
If love cease to exist again,
we’ll beat as one.
If your legs are too old to run,
if your lips’ sweetness can’t remain,
if your mind forgets to be sane,
we’ll beat as one.

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Photo credit: Tamara Menzi

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In response to Blogging from A to Z Challenge: R is for Rondelet

Rondelet

The Rondelet is a relatively short poem using the entire opening line as its refrain. It is French in origin, another member of the 13th century Rondeau Family of Forms which is defined by its use of the rentrement.

The Rondelet is:

• a heptastich, a poem in 7 lines.
• in French syllabic. Syllable count per line are 4-8-4-8-8-8-4 In English tends to be iambic in pattern.
• composed with a rentrement, in the Rondelet the entire L1 is repeated as refrain in L3 and L7.
• rhymed. Rhyme scheme interlocks between the refrain AbAabbA.

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