👉 Ronsardian is a poetic term that refers to the style of poetry in which a poet uses the rhyming scheme of the Old English alphabet (a system of writing used by Anglo-Saxons until the 9th century) as a primary motif. In this context, "ronsard" refers to the Old English vowel system, while "dian" represents the rhyming scheme of the Old English alphabet. The term was developed in medieval poetry and literature to describe poetic