Not Your Average Villanelle
Summary: Write a villanelle style poem, with a twist!
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Description: A villanelle is a poem that follows this structure:
A1
b
A2
a
b
A1
a
b
A2
a
b
A1
a
b
A1
A2
The lines A1, A2, and a will rhyme; the b lines will rhyme with each other as well! And the A1 and A2 lines repeat on several occasions throughout the poem.
For an example, look at Dylan Thomas' classic do not go gentle into that good night.
The villanelle developed out of the pastoral tradition, which idealizes rural life and landscapes. Since a lot of formal poetry follows themes of nature the object of this event is to create a poem with the least poetic theme. Forget nature and love; instead, wax poetic about your bookshelf, Tumblr, or Supernatural. The stranger the subject the better!
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