Rondel prime

A rondel prime is a formal French poetic structure consisting of two quatrains and a sestet for a total of fourteen lines, making it the first cousin to both the sonnet and the bref double.

The form includes two rhymes with two of its lines repeated three times each in one of two primary rhyme schemes:


 * A-B-a-b a-b-A-B a-b-a-b-A-B
 * A-B-a-b a-b-A-B a-b-b-a-A-B

The form is an expansion of the thirteen-line rondel, varying in its use of a third repetition of the B refrain line.