villanelle

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

From Literature

We love a good sonnet, acrostic or villanelle.

From Washington Post

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

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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.”

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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.

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