villanelle

Example Sentences

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We love a good sonnet, acrostic or villanelle.

From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2022

But it’s also, low-key, a villanelle, a rhymed 19-line form with two lines that repeat identically in different places throughout the poem and come together to form its closing couplet.

From Slate • Aug. 8, 2019

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

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