Instructions taken from Poetscollective.com.

The rondeau redouble is not an easy form to write. It uses only two rhymes throughout, repeats whole lines, and has an awkward repeated half-line at the end. Let's look at an example.
The first stanza is the key to the whole poem. Its four lines reappear in turn as the final lines of the next four stanzas, and the first part of the first line reappears again as the half-line at the very end. Each stanza rhymes either abab or baba. For the sixth stanza, either is possible.
To write one of these, start with the final half-line, then do the opening stanza, and you're half-way there.
Complication
The blessed Malcovati, curse him, tells us that one of the two rhyme groups in a rondeau redouble must be masculine and the other feminine. (The example he gives appears not to satisfy this rule or perhaps my French is not good enough to appreciate the way in which it does.) Anyway, if he is to be believed (and he usually is ) the above is not a true example of the form after all. It still seems good enough to me, though.

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