Rondeau
This is a form that is made up of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet. The first phrase of the first line of the quintet is acts as a refrain and repeated in the final line of the quatrain and the sestet. There is no required meter, though the English form often uses pentameter or tetrameter. The rhyme scheme would be: Ra.a.b.b.a....a.a.b.R....a.a.b.b.a.R.
“What a Burden”
What a burden is this life
That must go on so filled with strife
With endless toiling
And all souls spoiling
Each day cutting like a knife
Where each day is filled with hatred rife
And so happiness is felt by husband or wife
With thoughts so cruel and boiling
What a burden
Yet, I beg you, do not give up on this life
We shall not all end like Lot’s wife
One day, we will rise up from this foiling
We shall no longer be spoiling
What a burden
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