Talk:Villanelle
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I'm planning a major rewrite. Draft at User:Bmills/Villanelle.
Text as overwritten by Bmills 14:54, 18 Dec 2003 (UTC):
A villanelle (or occasionally villonelle) is a poem of nineteen lines, named for the French poet François Villon (1431-1474). It consists of five stanzas of three lines each (rhyme scheme A B A) with a quatrain (A B A A) at the end. In addition to the rhyme scheme, the first and third lines alternately recur throughout, and are repeated as the last two lines of the quatrain. An example of a villanelle is Edwin Arlington Robinson's The House On The Hill.
Originally a French poetic form, it is not easily adaptable to English (a notable exception being Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night".)
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[edit] Confusion
Please define A1 and A2 more succinctly.
Or at least use the same notation in the description (A1, A2) as in the diagram (a,a,a) -- 23 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Re: Confusion
I'll put the explanation of A1 and A2 back in and try to make it clearer.
--Amanda French 16:06, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Slate linked to this article
http://www.slate.com/id/2128464/tap2/ Kind of cool!
Here's what it said:
The thank-you note, however, is a difficult form, only slightly less tricky than the villanelle.
(Bjorn Tipling 01:27, 22 October 2005 (UTC))
[edit] Copyright?
Do we have the proper copyright to quote an entire poem of Sylvia Plath's? I don't think that's public domain... --Khazar 17:45, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
I took out the copyrighted poems myself awhile ago.
--Amanda French 16:02, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
