villanelle


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
villanelle /ˌvɪləˈnɛl/
noun a pastoral or lyrical poem of nineteen lines, with only two rhymes throughout, and some lines repeated.
– origin C19: Fr., from Ital. villanella, fem. of villanello ‘rural’.
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