Rondeau: Warning - Dai Gerdwr
Channel: Cerian Cantwr
Date: 12/11/2018

Rondeau: Warning - Dai Gerdwr
Recorded at Bardic Madness 2018 in Grey Gargoyles.

Rondeau
The Rondeau is a French poetic form dating back to the thirteenth century.  The style used in the example below is from 16th Century England.  It consists of thirteen eight syllable lines and two repeated four syllable refrains. These fifteen lines contain are broken into three stanzas and contain only three rhymes.

Poets in this challenge can use a different version of the Rondeau form they choose.  There are several good examples provided on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rondeau_(forme_fixe).