villanelle
Example Sentences
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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
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
She pivots formally, too, between hints of the sestina and the villanelle.
From New York Times • May 31, 2016
“Mine have poetic meter. A villanelle, actually,” Beowulf added modestly.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
