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villanelle|vɪləˈnɛl|
Also 6 villanell, 7 -el.
[a. F. villanelle, ad. It. villanella: see prec. In the first quot. perh. an Anglicizing of the Italian word.]
†1. = prec. Obs.
a1586Sidney Arcadia, etc. (1629) 535 To the tune of a Neapolitan Villanell. 1603Florio tr. Montaigne i. liv. 170 The Villanelles, homely gigges, and countrie songs of Gasconie. 1685Cotton tr. Montaigne (1711) i. liv. I. 472.
2. A poem of fixed form, usually of a pastoral or lyric nature, consisting normally of five three-lined stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rhymes throughout.
The first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated alternately in the succeeding stanzas as a refrain, and form a final couplet in the quatrain.
1877Gosse in Cornhill Mag. July 65 It appears that villanelles may be any length, if only they retain this number and arrangement of rhymes. 1877–8Henley in Ballades & Rondeaus (Canterb. Poets) 252 A dainty thing's the Villanelle. Sly, musical, a jewel in rhyme, It serves its purpose passing well. 1886C. Dick Model, etc. 90 A Vacation Villanelle. |