The forms vary from open verse to haiku to a sonnet sequence to a villanelle. |
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Those folk forms were complemented by his astute experiments with traditional forms, such as the sonnet, villanelle, and ballad. |
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At one level he was a great traditionalist, using the sonnet form extensively and experimenting with the ballad and the villanelle. |
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I'd like to be a villanelle or a triolet or a rondel, but at the end of the day, I'm a sonnet. |
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It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle. |
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The villanelle was revived in the 19th century by Philoxène Boyer and J. Boulmier. |
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In England, the villanelle was cultivated by W. E. Henley, Austin Dobson, Andrew Lang, and Edmund Gosse. |
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Although the pantoum was introduced into Western literature in the 19th century, it bears some resemblance to older French fixed forms, such as the rondeau and the villanelle. |
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But the villanelle or the sestina don't interest me quite as much. |
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