Rondel (poetry)

In its most severe form, it consists of two quatrains and the final five-poem, written in such a way that the first two verses are repeated in the seventh and eighth, and the very first, moreover, also as the final (thirteenth). The rhyme scheme, thus: ABba abAB abbaA (repeated letters are indicated in capital letters).

Rondel originated in medieval French poetry, where it was written primarily by an eight-syllable; Estash Deschan , apparently, stood at the origins of the form. The famous rondels belong to Karl Orleans .

Form Variations

Various variations of form were already found in its founder, Eustache Deschan . The most common name is “double rondelle” ( French rondel double ), however, it means different things for different authors: sometimes a poem of 16 lines in which the first quatrain is completely repeated at the end, sometimes a more complex form: 25 verses, all four verses of the first quatrain are repeated as the final verse in subsequent quatrains, and in conclusion, as in the single rondelle, there is a five-verse - so, in particular, in Willem van Fockenbroch ^[1] .

In modern times, Rondelles became famous for Stefan Mallarmé . Occasionally found in music ("Rondelle" written by P. I. Tchaikovsky to the verses of P. Collen).

The rondelle was transferred to Russian soil at the beginning of the 20th century by such authors as Igor Severyanin and Sophia Parnok . At the same time, in a number of cases, the poems so named were not actually rondels (in particular, the “Caucasian Rondel” of the Severyanin is a trio not fully formally sustained in formal terms). Similar processes took place in other European literature (in particular, they do not quite correspond to the classical understanding of the Rondel in such a way, such poems by Georg Trakl , Algernon Charles Swinburne and others). The rondel tradition also exists in Czech ( Yaroslav Vrkhlitsky , Vitezslav Nezval , Yaroslav Seifert ), Ukrainian ( Pavlo Tychina , Nikolai Borovko ) and other poetry.

In recent times, the rondelle is rarely found in the work of poets, prone to stylization and formal play, in particular, in Alexander Kondratov ^[2] .

She sings: “Allaverds,
Allaverdi - the Lord is with you ", -
And he started, accustomed to battle,
Alien from exuberant Kabarda.

The hand and gaze of his firmness, -

Do not tremble before the firing.

She sings: “Allaverds,

Allaverdi is the Lord with you. ”

Illuminated Gypsies Rows
The moon and the blue woman.
And drunk with herself
To the crack of guitars, to the cry of the horde
She sings: "Allaverdi."

- Sophia Parnock , September 29, 1915

• Rondo (poetry)

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