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  • noun Plural form of villanelle.

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  • Two villanelles appear in All the Poems of Muriel Spark (New Directions, 2004): “Edinburgh Villanelle” (first published in The New Yorker) and “Verlaine Villanelle.”

    2009 January 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2009

  • I'd love to see sonnets, villanelles, ballad stanzas, chants, refrains, or poems in unusual metres for this workshop.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Since herr dr. delagar has taken to teaching the modern poetry class at our university as well as teaching poetry workshop in our creative writing minor, he is having a poetic outbreak -- writing sonnets and villanelles and and every sort of poem non-stop.

    mr. delagar writes me a poem delagar 2009

  • And by the way, here in England there are poets old and young still writing sestinas and villanelles...

    Symposium 2009

  • I think sonnets actually belong to a different category of form, though, than sestinas or villanelles.

    anagrams in america : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Since herr dr. delagar has taken to teaching the modern poetry class at our university as well as teaching poetry workshop in our creative writing minor, he is having a poetic outbreak -- writing sonnets and villanelles and and every sort of poem non-stop.

    Archive 2009-09-01 delagar 2009

  • I did try out more structured poetry, various fixed stanza forms and made attempts at traditional forms like villanelles, triolets, sonnets an so forth.

    Archive 2008-06-01 David Hadley 2008

  • I had such wonderful ideas to make you all write sestinas or villanelles.

    LIT SOUP's birthday contest, Year #2 2008

  • I had such wonderful ideas to make you all write sestinas or villanelles.

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

  • I did try out more structured poetry, various fixed stanza forms and made attempts at traditional forms like villanelles, triolets, sonnets an so forth.

    Within The Rules David Hadley 2008

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