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

Elizabeth Bishop’s wrenching villanelle, “One Art,” can be seen this way.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 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

At the moment, he was attempting a villanelle, a poetic form more complex than even the most complicated dance step.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood