roundel
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- noun
- /ˈraʊndəl/
- Literature
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redondilla
- The recurrences and repetitions of the roundel's form weave together the poem.
- roundel, Swinburne
- roundel exemplifies
Examples
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In the first section, I show that Swinburne's roundels were a salvo in late Victorian prosodic debates regarding whether foreign verse forms could work in English.
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Soon after, two essays considered the roundel's circular form and its cyclic repetition.
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To conclude this essay, I do like the roundel and return to where I began: my introduction.
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Algernon Charles Swinburne, "The Roundel," A Century of Roundels (1883)
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Swinburne seemingly reasserted this aesthetic ideology when he theorized the poetics of the roundel.
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The roundel features a clever repetition of phrases that enhance its lyrical quality.
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Many poets have experimented with the roundel, appreciating its structured form and melodic refrain.
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In her poetry collection, she included a roundel that beautifully captures the essence of longing.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word roundel for the short poem comes from an old French word rondel meaning 'small round', from rond meaning 'round'. The poem's lines come back like a circle, so the form repeats a line and feels like it goes 'round' again.