Villanelles
What shall we do for June? Villanelle?Toni adds: See links for examples further down in this thread.
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I was wondering that myself. I'm cool with any form the group wants to work on.
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villanelle sounds fun--difficult but fun. villandelle: a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet...
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With reference to the form's repetition of lines, Philip K. Jason ... notes the possibility for the form to evoke, through the relationship between the repeated lines, a feeling of dislocation and a...
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It's possible to start with borrowed lines for most forms. I did a villanelle once based on "Little boy blue."
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I like the villanelle idea. (But am still planning to write some "Flora" ghazals. Well, at least one.) The two most famous ones, I'm sure, are Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"...
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Neat, Toni -- Like all the Latin in the first, it carries the theme nicely. And it's fun to play with Parker.OK, here for what it's worth is mine - from years ago:Jazz VillanelleLittle Boy Blue, come...
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Maybe I'll try one too. In organizing my poems, I came across this one from a few years ago. Not crazy about the title, but the rest is not too bad. Have I got the form right??Some things are...
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Most of my past villanelles are of the "arrgh poetica" variety and pretty unpublishable. I can't resist posting a very old one, which came about because someone on some board was asking whether there...
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