Villanelle

A Villanelle comprises five three-line stanzas, followed by a four-line stanza. In stanza one, line one is a refrain repeated in lines six, twelve, and eighteen. Line three of stanza one is a second refrain repeated in lines nine, fifteen, and nineteen. See also Conjoined Forms.

The first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated alternately in the succeeding stanzas as a refrain, and form a final couplet in the quatrain.

Source

French Poetic Form

Works that use this form

• Little Villainelle
• Newspoem 22 March 1998 An Irrational and Vindictive Demeanor
• Newspoem 27 June 1999 Roses Are Not Red (with Dirk Stratton)
• Newspoem 30 March 2000: Genetic Research

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