| LC control no. | sh 87005289 |
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| Topical heading | Villanelles |
| See also | Poetry |
| Found in | Work cat.: McFarland, R.E. The villanelle : the evolution of a poetic form, 1987. Britannica Micro. Cuddon dict. lit. terms. Holman handbk. to lit. Wikipedia, Jan. 11, 2012 (A villanelle is a poetic form that entered English-language poetry in the 9th century from the imitation of French models; villanelle has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain; although the villanelle is usually labeled "a French form", by far the majority of villanelles are in English) Poets.org website, Jan. 11, 2012 (The highly structured villanelle is a nineteen-line poem with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The form is made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain. The first and third lines of the opening tercet are repeated alternately in the last lines of the succeeding stanzas; then in the final stanza, the refrain serves as the poem's two concluding lines. Using capitals for the refrains and lowercase letters for the rhymes, the form could be expressed as: A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2; the form did not catch on in France, but it has become increasingly popular among poets writing in English) Craft of Poetry website, Jan. 11, 2012: Villanelle (Villanelles. The form is originally French and didn't appear in English until the later 1800's. It is 19 lines long, but only uses two rhymes, while also repeating two lines throughout the poem. The first five stanzas are triplets, and the last stanza is a quatrain such that the rhyme scheme is as follows: "aba aba aba aba aba abaa." The tricky part is that the 1st and 3rd lines from the first stanza are alternately repeated such that the 1st line becomes the last line in the second stanza, and the 3rd line becomes the last line in the third stanza. The last two lines of the poem are lines 1 and 3 respectively, making a rhymed couplet.) <http://www.uni.edu/~gotera/CraftOfPoetry/villanelle.html> |
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