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How to use villanelle in a sentence

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The forms vary from open verse to haiku to a sonnet sequence to a villanelle.
Those folk forms were complemented by his astute experiments with traditional forms, such as the sonnet, villanelle, and ballad.
At one level he was a great traditionalist, using the sonnet form extensively and experimenting with the ballad and the villanelle.
I'd like to be a villanelle or a triolet or a rondel, but at the end of the day, I'm a sonnet.
It can't just be a line of iambic, or a nineteen-line villanelle.
The villanelle was revived in the 19th century by Philoxène Boyer and J. Boulmier.
In England, the villanelle was cultivated by W. E. Henley, Austin Dobson, Andrew Lang, and Edmund Gosse.
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.
But the villanelle or the sestina don't interest me quite as much.
Examples from Classical Literature
This he followed by English versions of the rondel, rondeau and villanelle.
The villanelle J'ai perdu ma tourterelle and the ode on May-day show Passerat's art in its happiest moments.
Lastly, the villanelle alternates one of two refrain lines at the end of each three-lined stanza.
Here, as in the villanelle, a change of signification in the repeated lines is thought to add to the charm of the form.
The villanelle is written in five three-lined stanzas, concluding with one of four lines.
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