A French verse form consisting of five three-line stanzas and a final quatrain, with the first and third lines of the first stanza repeating alternately in the following stanzas. These two refrain lin [..]

poetic form (or a poem in this form) of five 3-lined stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rhymes throughout, usually of pastoral or lyric nature, 1580s, from French villanelle, from Italian vil [..]

A versatile genre of poetry consisting of nineteen lines--five tercets and a concluding quatrain. The form requires that whole lines be repeated in a specific order, and that only two rhyming sounds o [..]

Poem of five three-line stanzas concluding with a stanza of four lines. They contain only two rhyme sounds, eg ay, ill

A chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of five tercets (i.e., a unit or group of 3-line verse) and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening terc [..]

A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition. The first and third lines alternate throughout the poem, which is structured in six stanzas

a verse form consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas—five tercets (three-line stanzas) and one quatrain (four- line stanza). The first and third lines of the first tercet rhyme with each [..]

A 19-line poem divided into five tercets and one quatrain. Probably the most famous English villanelle is Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.”

 – a nineteen-line poem of five three-line stanzas (tercets) followed by a four-line stanza (quatrain) and which includes two repeating rhymes and two refrains

A French term used in the 16th century for pastoral poems or songs. The term was later revived, and applied to compositions by composers such as Georg Philipp Telemann, Hector Berlioz, and Paul Dukas.

A poem (normally) consisting of 19 lines - arranged as five triplets and one final quatrain. The intricate rhyme scheme of the villanelle is furnished by the first triplet: A(1)-B-A(2) and is then rep [..]

The meanest of the poetic forms, the villanelle comes to us from France, which is fitting, given that all great villains hail from France. Or maybe only this guy. Okay, in all honesty, villanelles are [..]