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The Villanelle in Poets Biography & Poetry Resource Directory
The villanelle has 19 lines, 5 stanzas of three lines and 1 stanza of four lines with two rhymes and two refrains. The 1st, then the 3rd lines alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2,3,and 4, and then stanza 5 the end as a couplet. It is usually written in tetrameter 4 feet or pentameter.
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