The above villanelle is simply a whiny complaint, composed in boredom, regarding my inability to support myself solely through my keyboard. From Wordnik.com. [Frustration: a villanelle] Reference
The villanelle is a nineteen-line poem made up of five triplets with a closing quatrain. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
J M McDermott: crappy romance villanelle skip to main. From Wordnik.com. [crappy romance villanelle] Reference
I wonder if the poem wants to be an unrhymed villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [With additional impractical poem] Reference
And does it help to master the villanelle at a tender age?. From Wordnik.com. [Starting the Young : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
What's a villanelle and all the different kinds of meter and all that?. From Wordnik.com. [Campus Speakers] Reference
At least as good is this villanelle, from The Sea and the Mirror, Miranda. From Wordnik.com. [The best thing Auden ever wrote ...] Reference
Forget about free verse until you understand the sestina and the villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [what i follow] Reference
The poem was a beautifully constructed villanelle, however, had little meaning. From Wordnik.com. [How to Make Your Writing Matter to Your Readers | Write to Done] Reference
Newspaper book-review pages are going the way of the sestina and the villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [Symposium] Reference
But I wound up writing a traditional villanelle, about travelling with books, instead. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
“That's a villanelle I'm working on,” I said, and if I sounded a bit miffed, I was. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Cleaning for Poets] Reference
Conscious of his desire she was waking from odorous sleep, the temptress of his villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
The different parts of the story are told in different forms of poetry--free verse, sonnet, villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [Goblin Fruit, Winter 2008] Reference
I tried to write a villanelle once, and gave up in despair: it's very hard to it at all, let alone well. From Wordnik.com. [19 Lines] Reference
Meanwhile, I'm assigning everyone to write a sestina, and everyone has to write a villanelle, and so on. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living] Reference
I think it's a fun poem, and works well as a villanelle -- although my later villanelles are, I think, much better. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
She would be the poet to immortalize this monumental dinner party by ode, villanelle, or dirty limerick, I am sure. From Wordnik.com. [This Website Is Five Years Old!] Reference
I'm curious to see if the Mundane ideas spark imaginations the way many OULIPO ideas have, or the idea of a villanelle has. From Wordnik.com. [Constraint] Reference
I wrote a villanelle this evening, about recommending books to friends, and it was nice to play around with formal poetry again. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
Let the record show Janet won her copy months in advance in a poetry contest with a victorious villanelle which are hard to write!. From Wordnik.com. [Last Dragon by J.M. McDermott] Reference
Any subject, any type of work poem, novel, short story, villanelle, etc any publication, any material someone even idly asked for. From Wordnik.com. [Snow Day] Reference
The next morning I sat down at my computer and in two hours turned a decades-old dead-in-the-water villanelle into a working rondeau. From Wordnik.com. [The Best American Poetry 2010] Reference
The verses passed from his mind to his lips and, murmuring them over, he felt the rhythmic movement of a villanelle pass through them. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Another successful villanelle is Mitchell Geller's. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The pantoum is a rare form of poetry similar to a villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
Alex Williamson's villanelle uses the exact opposite tonal approach. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
In the villanelle the influence of the strophic folk song is clearly perceptible. From Wordnik.com. [Some Forerunners of Italian Opera] Reference
That's what Planet Money editor Jonathan Kern villanelle for the economic crisis. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
But now I run, I run as in a race. villanelle, as a poetic form, is famously difficult to write. From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
The most famous villanelle, at least in our time, is Dylan Thomas 'poem to his father: "Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night". From Wordnik.com. [Gates of Vienna] Reference
M o u s e p o e t villanelle, dove bars, and the universe. From Wordnik.com. [mousepoet Diary Entry] Reference
7: 36 AM PST - Dec. 08, 2003 this picture inspired this villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [Another Round Please] Reference
Crappy romance villanelle i wrote it, but i will never publish this piece of bullhonky. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
(I also hope I find a villanelle-friendly editor somewhere, to unload some of these. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
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