villanelle
Example Sentences
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For my first experiment, I had the A.I. write a villanelle, a rather difficult poetic form, about the death of a pet gerbil.
From Slate • Dec. 13, 2022
In “Missing Dates,” a haunting villanelle about helpless love and despair, William Empson writes: “Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills./ The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2020
WH Auden’s villanelle If I could tell you is recalled in the last line, where the gloved hand appears “as though it intends to stay”.
From The Guardian • Jul. 31, 2017
She’d fought to master the loss, writing seventeen quickly successive drafts of an exactingly structured villanelle, a form with origins in the French Baroque.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017
“Mine have poetic meter. A villanelle, actually,” Beowulf added modestly.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
