villanelle

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The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain.

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  1. noun A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.

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  • He wanted one of the verse forms with repeating lines, like a villanelle or a pantoum, to echo the way we inevitably arrive at our future. —  Smoke and Mirrors, by Neil Gaiman.
  • Boy, it's a surprise to see a poem so weighted with end words, such as "sun," fifteen times, like the villanelle, that branch of poetry the French chose to enfog —  dbqp: visualizing poetics
  • Like the villanelle, Pantoums use lines which are repeated in their entirety, but they are not the same lines throughout the poem. —  PoeWar
  • The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain. —  LearnHub Activities
  • The villanelle has been used regularly in the English language since the late nineteenth century by such poets as Dylan Thomas, W. H. Auden, and Elizabeth Bishop. —  LearnHub Activities
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  1. French, from Italian villanella, from feminine of villanello, rustic, from villano, peasant, from Vulgar Latin *vīllānus, from Latin vīlla, country house; see weik-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. French, from Italian villanella: see villanella.
 

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/vɪləˈnɛl/
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