villanelle
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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
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
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
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
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Literary Terms, Part I
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