villanelle

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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

We love a good sonnet, acrostic or villanelle.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2022

This is the distinction Elizabeth Bishop illuminates, by pretending to elide it, in her villanelle “One Art,” perhaps the most famous reckoning with loss in all of literature.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 5, 2017

Her work combines free verse with more traditional forms like the sonnet and the villanelle to explore memory and the racial legacy of America.

From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2012

“Mine have poetic meter. A villanelle, actually,” Beowulf added modestly.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood