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A Rondel is a French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats.

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The first time I met you I knew,

I would be foolish to fall in love

Although your hand fit mine like a glove

There wasn’t room in your life for two.

 

As time went by, my feelings grew,

but I hid them in shadows thereof.

The first time I met you I knew

I would be foolish to fall in love.

 

Once as I gazed into your eyes of blue,

I prayed to the Heavens above

that you’d never guess, even an inkling of

the tenderest feelings I’d hidden from you.

The first time I met you I knew.