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VILLANELLE , a form of verse, originally loose in construction, but since the 16th century bound in exact limits of an arbitrary kind. The word is ultimately derived from the Latin villa, a country house
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" J'ai perdu ma tourterelle: Est-ce point celle clue j'oi? Je veux alter apt-es elle. Tu regrettes to femelle? Helas! aussi fais-je moi: J'ai perdu ma tourterelle. Si ton amour est fidele, Aussi est ferme ma foi: Je veux alter apres elle. Ta plainte se renouvelle? Toujours plaindre je me dois: J'ai perdu ma tourterelle. En ne voyant plus la belle Plus rien de beau je ne vois: Je veux aller apres elle. Mort, que tant de fois j'appelle, Prends ce qui se donne a toi: J'ai perdu ma tourterelle, Je veux aller apres elle." This exquisite lyric has continued to be the type of its class, and the villanelle, therefore, for the last three hundred years has been a poem, written in tercets, on two rhymes, the first and the third line being repeated alternatively in each tercet. It is usual to confine the villanelle to five tercets, but that is not essential; it must, however, close with a quatrain, the last two lines of which are the first and third line of the original
Theodore
thread of rose-colour. Boulmier, who was the first to point out that Passerat was the inventor of the definite villanelle, published collections of these poems in 1878 and 1879, and was preparing another when he died in 1881. When, in 1877, so many of the early French forms of verse were introduced, or reintroduced, into English literature, the villanelle attracted a great
Dobson , Lang and Gosse. Henley wrote a large number, and he described the form itself in a specimen beginning:" A dainty thing's the Villanelle, Sly, musical, a jewel
It serves its purpose passing well." It has since then been very frequently used by English and American poets. There are several excellent examples in English of humorous villanelles, especially those by Austin Dobson and by Henley.See Joseph Boulmier, Les Villanelles (Paris, 1878; 2nd enlarged edition, 1879). (E. G. End of Article: VILLANELLE If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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