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villanelle
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
poetic form (or a poem in this form) of five 3-lined stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rhymes throughout, usually of pastoral or lyric nature, 1580s, from French villanelle , from Italian villanella "ballad, rural song," from fem. of villanello ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Villanella \Vil`la*nel"la\, n.; pl. Villanelle . [It., a pretty country girl.] (Mus.) An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A villanelle (also known as villanesque ) is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain . There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context poetry English) a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
Usage examples of villanelle.
Daisies, being among the simpler flowers, characteristically employ a rough sort of octosyllabic doggerel, but more evolved species, especially those in the tropics, can produce sestinas, rondeaux, and villanelles of the highest order.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
It was a villanelle, smoothly accomplished except for a slip in scansion in the third line of the quatrain.
In the villanelle the influence of the strophic folk song is clearly perceptible.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
Nor was Raoul disturbed by the fact that many of these same villanelles and ballades were patently written in celebration of Adele's visible charms, and made liberal mention of her wine-dark tresses, her golden eyes, and sundry other details no less alluring, and equally essential to feminine perfection.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Ballades by the score with the same old thought: The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished.