Rondeaux are French lyric poems coming from the same fourteenth and fifteenth century formal tradition as the earlier rondel and trioletin fact, the three forms are sometimes considered variations of the same genre. This genre of fixedform poetry is powered by strict repetition, both through its reliance on only a twoword pattern of rhyme and through its use of the rentrementthe reentry of the poems opening wordsas a refrain.

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