VILLANELLE


Meaning of VILLANELLE in English

ˌviləˈnel noun

( -s )

Etymology: French, from Italian villanella

: a chiefly French poem having typically five tercets and a quatrain with the second lines having one rhyme and the remaining lines another and with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated in alternation as the last line of the succeeding tercets and together as the closing couplet of the quatrain — compare virelay

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