Roger?
Roethke's villanelle is "The Waking."
(As you kinda know already I love that poem! For what it says of course, and of course because I see it as my license to exploit the much-maligned-melodious-"ing" in my whacky attempts at poems! I think he uses twelve or thirteen of the darned things! Ha!)
I agree with you, Roger, as to the appealing nature of the terzanelle form. I love to see repetition in a poem, but forms like the pantoum and the villanelle generally seem like a bit of overkill.
See ya!
---Pua
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