By I will admit, when I first took over the Writing Group, I wasn’t sure how the poetry forms were going to go over but the group members really seemed to like them. This poem form has lots of specifics.
From Poets.org: The villanelle is a highly structured poem made up of five tercets followed by a quatrain, with two repeating rhymes and two refrains. The rhyme pattern is A1 b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 / a b A2 / a b A1 A2.
To illustrate this I have bolded and italicized the refrains below. This is not the best example of this type of poem but I did write one. Do you like writing any of the closed form poems? Let me know in the comments.
Sit and listen to the tale of the golden dog
A pup that knows how to go with the flow
Being around him is never a slog
He sleeps all day like a log
When you get up, he wants to be in the know
Sit and listen to the tale of the golden dog
When enticed can jump like a frog
Occasionally he might listen to a no
Being around him is never a slog
If you aren’t watching he’ll be in a bog
This pup is less happy to play in snow
Sit and listen to the tale of the golden dog
Our goblin boy is a bed hog
Kicking him out is a no-go
Being around him is never a slog
Muddy boy is definitely not a lapdog
Conning me out of a treat makes him a pro
Sit and listen to the tale of the golden dog
Being around him is never a slog
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I have tried closed forms, including villanelles, in the past, though the majority of the most recent ones have been free verse.
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I like free verse but I think knowing the forms helps poets figure out what they can really do with it. Maybe they don’t use the full rhyme scheme but maybe they like the refrain portion. Stuff like that.
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True.
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