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Unread 04-02-2001, 04:07 AM
A. E. Stallings A. E. Stallings is offline
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This is an exercise I've been wanting to do myself for some time. Maybe posting it will inspire me to actually execute it...

I don't think I've invented this. I think examples exist. I have a dim memory of running across one in Hollander's work, but unable to relocate it.

Perhaps the hardest part of a villanelle is coming up with great repetends. The rest is filling in the blanks (OK not easy). So...

Take a killer couplet from a famous (or not famous) poem, sonnet, etc. These are your repetends. Fill in the rest and... voila! Villanelle!

I'm too lazy to post the rules for the villanelle form here. Maybe someone could come along and do it... Or post a link to guidelines.

Serious and slight efforts welcome...

Alicia
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