SupremeDreamer
13 Mar 2004
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I got a great idea.. how about correcting the spelling of "Villanelle" in the poem type box?. You had me convinced that its spelled vilanelle, and now I blame you for mis-spelling it five times in my latest vill.. (my royal ranker right to be an irritating jack ass, despite the fact that I should have checked it myself.. its still your fault.)
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vil·la·nelle
n.
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.
[French, from Italian villanella, from feminine of villanello, rustic, from villano, peasant.]
n.
A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.
[French, from Italian villanella, from feminine of villanello, rustic, from villano, peasant.]