Villanelle
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Repetitive Requirement, Rhyme
Scheme Requirement, Isosyllabic | | |
| Description: | | A French form using repetition. The English version
usually shows up as nineteen lines arranged in six verses. The French might carry it out further so that the middle stanzas could be any number greater than
four with the same repeating pattern, giving a line count of 19 + 6n with an even number of verses. | | |
| Origin: | | French | | |
| Schematic: | | A1bA2 abA1 abA2 abA1 abA2 abA1A2 | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 3 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 19 | | |
| Examples: | | | | |
| See Also: | | Dryden's Roundelay, Enclosed Triplet, Terza Rima, Terzanelle, Triolet, Villancico, Villancico II | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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