Century of Roundels

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Poetry

Authors: Algernon Charles Swinburne In Year : 1883

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Century of Roundels

Dedication to Christina G. Rossetti
In Harbour
The Way of the Wind
'Had I Wist'
Recollections
Time and Life
A Dialogue
Plus Ultra
A Dead Friend
Past Days
Autumn and Winter
The Death of Richard Wagner
Two Preludes; Lohengrin & Tristan und Isolde
The Lute and the Lyre
Plus Intra
Change
A Baby's Death
One of Twain
Death and Birth
Birth and Death
Benediction
Etude Realiste
Babyhood
First Footsteps
A Ninth Birthday
Not a Child
To Dora Dorian
The Roundel
At Sea
Wasted Love
Before Sunset
A Singing Lesson
Flower-pieces; Love Lies Bleeding & Love in a Mist
Three Faces; Ventimiglia, Genoa & Venice
Eros
Sorrow
Sleep
On an Old Roundel
A Landscape by Courbet
A Flower-piece by Fantin
A Night-piece by Millet
Marzo Pazzo
Dead Love
Discord
Concord
Mourning
Aperotos Eros
To Catullus
Insularum Ocelle'
In Sark
In Guernsey
Envoi

A roundel (not to be confused with the rondel) is a form of verse used in English language poetry devised by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909). It is a variation of the French rondeau form. It makes use of refrains, repeated according to a certain stylized pattern. A roundel consists of nine lines each having the same number of syllables, plus a refrain after the third line and after the last line. The refrain must be identical with the beginning of the first line: it may be a half-line, and rhymes with the second line. It has three stanzas and its rhyme scheme is as follows: A B A R ; B A B ; A B A R ; where R is the refrain. Swinburne had published a book A Century of Roundels. He dedicated these poems to his friend Christina Rossetti, who then started writing roundels herself, as evidenced by the following examples from her anthology of poetry: Wife to Husband; A Better Resurrection; A Life's Parallels; Today for me; It is finished; From Metastasio. (Summary by Wikipedia)