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
Her work combines free verse with more traditional forms like the sonnet and the villanelle to explore memory and the racial legacy of America.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2012
“Mine have poetic meter. A villanelle, actually,” Beowulf added modestly.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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