A villanelle is a complex rime and refrain structured verseform derived from medieval models by a fairly complex process of mistaken understanding in Nineteenth Century France, and made popular in Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century English poetry.
It is difficult to define a villanelle, but very easy to demonstrate what one is by example:
: Do not go gentle into that good night,
: Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
: Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
: Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
: Because their words had forked no lightning they
: Do not go gentle into that good night.
: Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
: Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
: Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
: Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
: And learned, too late, they grieved it on its way,
: Do not go gentle into that good night.
: Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
: Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
: Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
: And you, my father, there on the sad height,
: Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
: Do not go gentle into that good night.
: Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The rimepattern and the repeated lines are both required by villanelle form - though there is considerable freedom in the metre used.
The best way to find out about villanelles is to write a few - trying to precisely define one is a headache.
a poem about a poem.
It is a poem which tells you that you can't write a poem. :)
Poem of Baal
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because song is poem is poem and that's that's so should i be this confused?
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A concrete poem.
Can you provide the title of the poem you're referring to?
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