roundelay

roundelay
    n 1: a song in which a line or phrase is repeated as the refrain
    

Roundelay \Round"e*lay\, n. [OF. rondelet, dim. of rondel. See
   {Roundel}, {Roundeau}, and cf. {Roundlet}, {Rundlet}.]
   1. (Poetry) See {Rondeau}, and {Rondel}.
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   2. (Mus.)
      (a) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a
          simple rural strain which is short and lively.
          --Spenser. --Tennyson.
      (b) A dance in a circle.
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   3. Anything having a round form; a roundel.
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76 Moby Thesaurus words for "roundelay":
      English sonnet, Horatian ode, Italian sonnet, Petrarchan sonnet,
      Pindaric ode, Sapphic ode, Shakespearean sonnet, alba, anacreontic,
      balada, ballad, ballade, bucolic, canon, canso, catch, chanson,
      clerihew, dirge, dithyramb, eclogue, elegy, epic, epigram,
      epithalamium, epode, epopee, epopoeia, epos, fugato, fugue,
      georgic, ghazel, haiku, idyll, jingle, limerick, lyric, madrigal,
      monody, narrative poem, nursery rhyme, ode, palinode, pastoral,
      pastoral elegy, pastorela, pastourelle, poem, prothalamium, rhyme,
      rondeau, rondel, rondino, rondo, rondoletto, round, roundel,
      satire, sestina, sloka, song, sonnet, sonnet sequence, tanka,
      tenso, tenzone, threnody, triolet, troll, troubadour poem, verse,
      verselet, versicle, villanelle, virelay