The rondine is a French verse form from around the 16th century that traces its roots to the rondeau, joining a prestigious family of forms that are united by difficult rhyme schemes and heavy use of refrains. The rondine, for its part, is effectively just a shorter rondeau, at 12 lines instead of the usual 15.
The rondeau redouble is essentially a challenging “super rondeau” that extends the form out to 25 lines instead of 15. That, while also demands a tighter structure focused around rhymed quatrains instead of uneven verses, while still utilizing refrains. It was invented by the 16th-century French poet Clement Marot.
The rondel supreme (or rondel prime) is a variant of the shorter rondel. A rondel supreme is 14 lines, utilizing only two end sounds and a set of refrains that repeats at the end of each of its three verses. The form has been compared to a sonnet and even carries the nickname “the French sonnet.”
Huitains are eight-line poems that were mostly popular in 16th century Western Europe. They are usually credited to France and generally consist of the first eight lines of the longer ballade form, though there has been some historical experimentation with the rhyme scheme and line lengths of the huitain.
A villanelle poem is a poem of French origin, consisting of five three-line verses (tercets) and finally, one four-line stanza (quatrain). The villanelle poem type is a favored poetry form by many poets, especially during the late 16th century.