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View synonyms for villanelle
villanelle
[ vil-uh-nel ]
noun
, Prosody.
- a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes.
villanelle
/ ˌvɪləˈnɛl /
noun
- a verse form of French origin consisting of 19 lines arranged in five tercets and a quatrain. The first and third lines of the first tercet recur alternately at the end of each subsequent tercet and both together at the end of the quatrain
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Word History and Origins
Origin of villanelle1
1580–90; < French < Italian; villanella, -elle
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Word History and Origins
Origin of villanelle1
C16: from French, from Italian villanella
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Example Sentences
The great villanelle of serial failure, the inevitability of which is perfectly underscored by the form.
From The Daily Beast
The Villanelle is written in five three-lined stanzas, concluding with one of four lines.
From Project Gutenberg
The Villanelle has been called "the most ravishing jewel worn by the Muse Erato."
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And so it proved; he heard a sweet voice singing an old villanelle with a slow and melancholy refrain.
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This he followed by English versions of the rondel, rondeau and villanelle.
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Here, as in the villanelle, a change of signification in the repeated lines is thought to add to the charm of the form.
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