Villanelle Villanelle Villanelle • Rhyme: ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA • Rhyme: ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA • Rhyme: ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA • Structure: 19 lines--5 tercets and a closing • Structure: 19 lines--5 tercets and a closing • Structure: 19 lines--5 tercets and a closing quatrain. 6-11 syllables per line quatrain. 6-11 syllables per line quatrain. 6-11 syllables per line • Measure/Beat: iambic trimeter, tetrameter or • Measure/Beat: iambic trimeter, tetrameter or • Measure/Beat: iambic trimeter, tetrameter or pentameter pentameter pentameter • Common Themes: Love, loss and challenge • Common Themes: Love, loss and challenge • Common Themes: Love, loss and challenge • Other notes (because nothing is absolute in • Other notes (because nothing is absolute in • Other notes (because nothing is absolute in poetry) poetry) poetry) • 19 lines combine repeating refrains, • 19 lines combine repeating refrains, • 19 lines combine repeating refrains, rhyme and cross-rhyme* schemes rhyme and cross-rhyme* schemes rhyme and cross-rhyme* schemes • first and third lines of poem later form • first and third lines of poem later form • first and third lines of poem later form the closing couplet. the closing couplet. the closing couplet. • Final line of the first tercet rhymes with • Final line of the first tercet rhymes with • Final line of the first tercet rhymes with the first line of the next stanza forming a the first line of the next stanza forming a the first line of the next stanza forming a repetitive rhyme between the first and repetitive rhyme between the first and repetitive rhyme between the first and third lines of every stanza. third lines of every stanza. third lines of every stanza. *cross rhyme entails rhymes that answer one *cross rhyme entails rhymes that answer one *cross rhyme entails rhymes that answer one another across intervening lines (abab) another across intervening lines (abab) another across intervening lines (abab)

Villanelle Villanelle Villanelle • Rhyme: ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA • Rhyme: ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA • Rhyme: ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABA-ABAA • Structure: 19 lines--5 tercets and a closing • Structure: 19 lines--5 tercets and a closing • Structure: 19 lines--5 tercets and a closing quatrain. 6-11 syllables per line quatrain. 6-11 syllables per line quatrain. 6-11 syllables per line • Measure/Beat: iambic trimeter, tetrameter or • Measure/Beat: iambic trimeter, tetrameter or • Measure/Beat: iambic trimeter, tetrameter or pentameter pentameter pentameter • Common Themes: Love, loss and challenge • Common Themes: Love, loss and challenge • Common Themes: Love, loss and challenge • Other notes (because nothing is absolute in • Other notes (because nothing is absolute in • Other notes (because nothing is absolute in poetry) poetry) poetry) • 19 lines combine repeating refrains, • 19 lines combine repeating refrains, • 19 lines combine repeating refrains, rhyme and cross-rhyme* schemes rhyme and cross-rhyme* schemes rhyme and cross-rhyme* schemes • first and third lines of poem later form • first and third lines of poem later form • first and third lines of poem later form the closing couplet. the closing couplet. the closing couplet. • Final line of the first tercet rhymes with • Final line of the first tercet rhymes with • Final line of the first tercet rhymes with the first line of the next stanza forming a the first line of the next stanza forming a the first line of the next stanza forming a repetitive rhyme between the first and repetitive rhyme between the first and repetitive rhyme between the first and third lines of every stanza. third lines of every stanza. third lines of every stanza. *cross rhyme entails rhymes that answer one *cross rhyme entails rhymes that answer one *cross rhyme entails rhymes that answer one another across intervening lines (abab) another across intervening lines (abab) another across intervening lines (abab)