Thanks to those eagle-eyed readers of this blog who spotted the typo in the e-mail address for submissions. Because of that typo, I'm extending the deadline. Thanks for your patience!
The Rondeau Roundup is looking forward to fall colors, warm sweaters, and mellow sips of cider by the fireplace. To welcome in Fall 2009, the Rondeau Roundup blog is having a contest for the best rondeau on the topic of AUTUMN submitted by October 2, 2009.
Contest Rules:
Only one rondeau may be submitted per person. No entry fee. Top five rondeaus will be published on the blog (therondeauroundup.blogspot.com). The first place rondeau will also receive a $35 gift certificate from Amazon.com
For this contest, I'm looking for rondeaus that follow the standard definition, as given on poets.org
"The rondeau’s form is not difficult to recognize: as it is known and practiced today, it is composed of fifteen lines, eight to ten syllables each, divided stanzaically into a quintet, a quatrain, and a sestet. The rentrement consists of the first few words or the entire first line of the first stanza, and it recurs as the last line of both the second and third stanzas. Two rhymes guide the music of the rondeau, whose rhyme scheme is as follows (R representing the refrain): aabba aabR aabbaR."
Examples of the form: "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae, "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
No other poetic form will be accepted for this contest. Non-rhyming rondeaus can be entered, but the blog moderator's preference is for rhymed and metered rondeaus.
To enter, send a single rondeau on the topic of AUTUMN to
rondeauroundup(at)gmail.com (replace (at) with @) by October 2, 2009.
Winners will be announced on the Rondeau Roundup Blog on October 15, 2009.
No comments:
Post a Comment