About this poem:

The ROUNDEL is a deritave
of rondeau and rondine... It has
eleven lines constructed from two
quatrains, and a triplet.
The rhyme scheme only has two
rhymes and a refrain from the first
phrase of first line, thus, the second
line rhymes with the refrain:.. a. b.
a.B . b. a. b . a. b. a. B..
example:
If he could know my songs are all
for him,
At silver dawn or in the evening
glow,
Would he not smile and think it but
a whim,
If he could know?
Or would his heart rejoice and
overflow,
As happy brooks that break their
icy rim
When April's horns along the
hillsides blow?
I may not speak till Eros' torch is
dim,
The god is bitter and will have it so;
And yet to-night our fate would
seem less grim
If he could know. --- Sara Teasdale