A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. ...
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. ...
Refrain:Villanelles have two refrains, or lines of verse that repeat throughout the poem. The first and third lines of the first tercet alternate as the last lines of the remaining tercets. In the last stanza, a quatrain, these two lines appear again as the final two lines of the poem...
The Villanelle is written in five three-lined stanzas, concluding with one of four lines. FromProject Gutenberg The Villanelle has been called "the most ravishing jewel worn by the Muse Erato." FromProject Gutenberg And so it proved; he heard a sweet voice singing an old villanelle with a ...