The villanelle is a 19-line fixed form poem with repeating lines, composed in five tercets (a three-line stanza, often rhyming) with a closing quatrain that ends in a rhyming couplet.
• Rhyme - aba-aba-aba-aba-aba-abaa
• Structure - 19 lines – five tercets and a closing quatrain; 6 to 11 syllables per line
• Measure/Beat - Iambic trimeter, tetrameter, or pentameter
• Common Themes - Love, loss, and challenge
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After Devil's Hour
PoetryI must admit - this was a bit of fun to write within the half-hour I gave to the 'actual' writing of this piece. I was inspired to look over other forms of poetry - some forms that which I don't always see. I insist all Poets to reach out and try...
