villanelle

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

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

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

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

She pivots formally, too, between hints of the sestina and the villanelle.

From New York Times • May 31, 2016

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