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Karma: 0 |  | Please Read -- What Is a Villanelle?
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Villanelle -- A fixed-form poem consisting of 19 lines of any length divided into six stanzas -- five tercets (3 lines) and a concluding quatrain (4 lines).
The first and third lines of the initial tercet rhyme; these rhymes are repeated in each subsequent tercet (aba) and in the final two lines of the quatrain (abaa).
Line 1 is repeated in full as line 6, line 12 and line 18, while line 3 is repeated in full as line 9, line 15 and line 19.
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Example:
"Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"
by Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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-- poetryinacup
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