Definitions for villanelleˌvɪl əˈnɛl
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Random House Webster's College Dictionary
vil•la•nelleˌvɪl əˈnɛl(n.)
a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usu. five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes.
Category: Prosody
Origin of villanelle:
1580–90; < F < It; see villanella
Wiktionary
villanelle(Noun)
a type of poetry, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
Webster Dictionary
Villanelle(u)
of Villanella
Villanelle(noun)
a poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close
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