villanelle

Example Sentences

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Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend.

From Washington Post

“It was almost like working within a received form, like a sonnet or a villanelle, to write into the context of the script,” he said.

From New York Times

Eventually we’re left with the villanelle’s twinned refrain — until even these wisps of sound recede.

From New York Times

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

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