Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
The gist of the Bohemian soul,
Bread and salted fish and cold.
Leeks, and cabbage three days old,
Smoked meat, as hard and black as coal;
Fleas, stink, pigs, mold.
Twenty eating from one bowl,
A bitter drink -it's beer, I'm told-
Bad sleep on a straw in some filthy hole,
Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
The gist of the Bohemian soul,
Bread and salted fish and cold.
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Nice to see the Rondeau. I will add it to my collection for my class.
A1 Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
B The gist of the Bohemian soul,
A2 Bread and salted fish and cold.
a Leeks, and cabbage three days old,
b Smoked meat, as hard and black as coal;
A1 Fleas, stink, pigs, mold.
b Twenty eating from one bowl,
a A bitter drink -it's beer, I'm told-
b Bad sleep on a straw in some filthy hole,
A1 Fleas, stink, pigs, mold,
B The gist of the Bohemian soul,
A2 Bread and salted fish and cold.
Interesting to see the 12 line format.
What a bleak existance.
From the 1911 encylopedia (online)
. In poetry the rondeau is a short metrical structure which in its perfect form consists of thirteen eight- or ten-syllabled verses divided into three strophes of unequal length, and knit together by two rhymes and a refrain. In Clement Marot’s time the laws of the rondeau were laid down, and, according to Voiture, in the 17th century, the following was the type of the approved form of the rondeau:—
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