Poetry Forum

This week is the last of the poetry forms we will be exploring.

Rondeau-

A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows: aabba aabR aabbaR. Lines 9 and 15 are short - a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one. The other lines are longer (but all of the same metrical length).

http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/rondeau.html

Here are a few of my examples of the Rondeau form...
"The Steel Dragon"   by PandaPaws Licensed VetTech and "Independence Day Rondeau"   by PandaPaws Licensed VetTech

ASSIGNMENT-

Write a Rondeau Poem, using the poetic devices we have learned and keeping in the Fantasy/Science Fiction theme.