I guess villanelles about writing villanelles are legion, and I've committed several. Here's one:
My Funny Villanelle
My funny villanelle, my comic villanelle
becomes a smile from my hand;
it isn’t written well, as anyone can tell,
yet it’s so terrible it’s almost risible,
and so may meet the demand
for funny villanelles and comic villanelles
that now begins to swell and multiply pell-mell
throughout this whole wide land.
It isn’t written well, as anyone can tell;
I doubt I’ll ever sell this poem to Mademoiselle,
much less to Racing Fan.
My funny villanelle, my comic villanelle
just doesn’t want to jell, the lines aren’t parallel,
it needs a rewrite man.
It isn’t written well, as anyone can tell,
the meter limps like hell, it makes me want to yell
"Scan, funny villanelle, scan!"
It isn’t written well, as anyone can tell.
It’s time to quell my comic villanelle.
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