[header] How to write a villanelle [title] Learn the rules of a villanelle. [step] The villanelle has 19 lines, split into 5 tercets (three-line stanzas) and 1 quatrain (a stanza of 4 lines). There are two repeating rhymes and two " refrains, " or repeated lines.
[header] How to write a villanelle [title] Learn the rules of a villanelle. [step] The villanelle has 19 lines, split into 5 tercets (three-line stanzas) and 1 quatrain (a stanza of 4 lines). There are two repeating rhymes and two " refrains, " or repeated lines.
[title] Learn to read the villanelle in different contexts. [step] There are two conjugations of the title. Genrivah (who is present) makes 3 stanzas. In the two stanzas, listen for which stanzas are laced with action verbs and which lines go under/below the stans. Each verse, stanza, and quatrain repeats the same song (and literally every other stanza) ten times. The entire poem uses both rhymes and refrains to stick. [substeps] The 1st and 3rd lines alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2 , 3, and 4. The last stanza uses the 1st and 3rd lines as a rhymed couplet.