Unsaddled and free on the plain
Out there in heat haze and flood rain
Eating grass, your own form of manna
Your favourite flower is the canna
Only found after downpours of rain
Animal of the savannah
Unsaddled and free on the plain
Found through Kenya and Ghana
Alongside the storks and cranes
Central Africa is your sole domain
Not found on the fields of Guyana
Animal of the savannah
The rondel poems comes from it's French meaning “little round”. The poem always has 13 lines with two four line stanzas (quatrains) and a five line stanza (quinte) in the following rhyming pattern:
A
B
b
a
a
b
A repeated
B repeated
a
b
b
a
A
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