villanelle









villanelle


noun Prosody.

  1. a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes.

noun, plural vil·la·nel·le [vil-uhnel-ee; Italian veel-lah-nel-le] /ˌvɪl əˈnɛl i; Italian ˌvil lɑˈnɛl lɛ/.

  1. a rustic Italian part song without accompaniment.

noun

  1. a verse form of French origin consisting of 19 lines arranged in five tercets and a quatrain. The first and third lines of the first tercet recur alternately at the end of each subsequent tercet and both together at the end of the quatrain

noun plural -las

  1. a type of part song originating in Naples during the 16th century
n.

1580s, from French villanelle, from Italian villanella “ballad, rural song,” from fem. of villanello “rustic,” from Medieval Latin villanus (see villain). As a poetic form, five 3-lined stanzas and a final quatrain, with only two rhymes throughout, usually of pastoral or lyric nature.

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