Villanelle

AGENDA:

Write a villanelle

Villanelle

A villanelle (also known as villanesque) is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form.

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The House on the Hill

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1894)

They are all gone away,     The House is shut and still, There is nothing more to say. Through broken walls and gray     The winds blow bleak and shrill: They are all gone away. Nor is there one to-day     To speak them good or ill: There is nothing more to say. Why is it then we stray     Around the sunken sill? They are all gone away, And our poor fancy-play     For them is wasted skill: There is nothing more to say. There is ruin and decay     In the House on the Hill: They are all gone away, There is nothing more to say.