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I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.
Robert Pinsky

Meaning of "villanelle" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD VILLANELLE

From French, from Italian villanella.
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PRONUNCIATION OF VILLANELLE

villanelle  [ˌvɪləˈnɛl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VILLANELLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Villanelle is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VILLANELLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

villanelle

Villanelle

A villanelle 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. The word derives from Latin, then Italian, and is related to the initial subject of the form being the pastoral. The form started as a simple ballad-like song with no fixed form; this fixed quality would only come much later, from the poem "Villanelle " by Jean Passerat. From this point, its evolution into the "fixed form" used in the present day is debated. Despite its French origins, the majority of villanelles have been written in English, a trend which began in the late nineteenth century. The villanelle has been noted as a form that frequently treats the subject of obsessions, and one which appeals to outsiders; its defining feature of repetition prevents it from having a conventional tone.

Definition of villanelle in the English dictionary

The definition of villanelle in the dictionary is a verse form of French origin consisting of 19 lines arranged in five tercets and a quatrain. The first and third lines of the first tercet recur alternately at the end of each subsequent tercet and both together at the end of the quatrain.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VILLANELLE


antipersonnel
ˌæntɪˌpɜːsəˈnɛl
Brunel
bruːˈnɛl
crenelle
krɪˈnɛl
cubanelle
ˌkjuːbəˈnɛl
dynel
daɪˈnɛl
fontanel
ˌfɒntəˈnɛl
fontanelle
ˌfɒntəˈnɛl
fustanelle
ˌfʌstəˈnɛl
jargonel
ˌdʒɑːɡəˈnɛl
organelle
ˌɔːɡəˈnɛl
personnel
ˌpɜːsəˈnɛl
prunelle
pruːˈnɛl
quenelle
kəˈnɛl
ritornelle
ˌrɪtəˈnɛl
ritournelle
ˌrɪtəˈnɛl
spinel
spɪˈnɛl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VILLANELLE

villagery
villagisation
villagization
Villahermosa
villain
villainage
villainess
villainies
villainous
villainously
villainousness
villainy
villanage
villanella
villanous
villanously
Villanovan
villar
Villars
villatic

WORDS THAT END LIKE VILLANELLE

aquarelle
belle
Celle
demoiselle
dentelle
echelle
Fontenelle
gazelle
Helle
La Rochelle
mademoiselle
Meurthe-et-Moselle
mirabelle
Moselle
nouvelle
rondelle
roselle
selle
spirituelle
tagliatelle

Synonyms and antonyms of villanelle in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «villanelle» into 25 languages

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The translations of villanelle from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «villanelle» in English.

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villanelle
1,325 millions of speakers

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villanelle
570 millions of speakers

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villanelle
510 millions of speakers

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villanelle
380 millions of speakers
ar

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villanelle
280 millions of speakers

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Вилланелла
278 millions of speakers

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villanelle
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villanelle
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Villanelle
220 millions of speakers

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Villanelle
190 millions of speakers

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Villanelle
180 millions of speakers

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villanelle
130 millions of speakers

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villanelle
85 millions of speakers

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Villanelle
85 millions of speakers
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villanelle
80 millions of speakers

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villanelle
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खलनायक
75 millions of speakers

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villanelle
70 millions of speakers

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Villanelle
65 millions of speakers

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Villanelle
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

вілланелла
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Villanelle
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

villanelle
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

villanelle
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Villan
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Villan
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of villanelle

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VILLANELLE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VILLANELLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about villanelle

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QUOTES WITH «VILLANELLE»

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Robert Pinsky
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VILLANELLE»

Discover the use of villanelle in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to villanelle and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Villanelles
" Here too are the cutting-edge works of contemporary poets, including Sherman Alexie, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Rita Dove, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and many others whose poems demonstrate the dazzling variety that can be found within the ...
Annie Finch, Marie-Elizabeth Mali, 2012
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An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the ...
Consisting of nineteen lines divided into six stanzas — five triplets and one concluding quatrain — the villanelle turns on two rhymes and builds on two refrains, which alternate. The first refrain recurs as the final line in triplets 2. and 4 ; the ...
Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes, 2002
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Making Sense: Sense Perception in the British Novel of the ...
Villanelle's sexual conquests with a mysterious 'Queen of spades' in occupied Venice. Villanelle's husband subsequently sells her to the French army as a prostitute, and by a freak chance of fate the Venetian girl and the French soldier meet ...
Ralf Hertel, 2005
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A Companion to Poetic Genre
(“First villane/le” 28-29) French's provocative claim that the villanelle evokes a tradition without actually being hampered by one recalls a similar, though not so polemical, observation made thirty years ago by Philip K. Jason in his essay on ...
Erik Martiny, 2011
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Writing Alone and with Others
Exercise: A Villanelle Made (Relatively) Painless Occasionally I give my workshop members an optional take-home exercise. One of them is an invitation to write a villanelle. It is a French form, very musical and fun to write if one can get over ...
Pat Schneider, 2003
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Empty Space and Points of Light: The Self,Time,Sex, and ...
Villanelle's parents in The Passion are quite happy together and Villanelle cares deeply about them, but Villanelle's mother has re-married and the man Villanelle perceives as her father is thus her stepfather. The ideal of the heteronormative ...
Marie Herholdt Jørgensen
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The Everything Writing Poetry Book: A Practical Guide To ...
Now, try a similar exercise for the villanelle by returning to your end-word lists. Remember: The villanelle gains most of its power through the repetition of lines, but the lines also have to rhyme. So, when you put together your list of ending ...
Tina D. Eliopulos, Todd Scott Moffett, 2005
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Poetry & Translation: The Art of the Impossible
The title itself articulates the anxiety in the shift of mode on each side of the colon: from the 1890s 'Villanelle' to the early modernist 'Psychological Hour'. The villanelle is another poetic form that enters English poetry via translation, this time  ...
Peter Robinson, 2010
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French Poetry: List of French-Language Poets, Villanelle, ...
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
Source Wikipedia, Books Llc, 2010
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Rhyme, Meter, and Other Word Music
U. noted as kJ. The other rhymes are noted in a similar way. Another popular poetic form is the villanelle. The villanelle has 19 lines, some of which repeat. Many people think the repeating lines make the villanelle ...
Jennifer Fandel, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VILLANELLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term villanelle is used in the context of the following news items.
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Classical CD Reviews
POULENC: Oboe Sonata; Flute Sonata; Clarinet Sonata; Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano; Wind Sextet; Villanelle for Piccolo and Piano; Elegy for Horn and ... «Audiophile Audition, Jul 15»
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Notturni Italiani - A night in Naples. Canzoni, villanelle, tarantelle
Nell'anno di Expo 2015 il festival si fa in tre. Dalle Stagioni di Vivaldi alle colonne sonore di Morricone, passando per tarantelle e danze rinascimentali. «mentelocale.it, Jul 15»
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“Le villanelle napoletane”: tripudio di suoni in salsa partenopea
Il maestro Roberto De Simone recentemente ha ripreso le cosiddette villanelle, nella sua opera in tre atti “Gatta Cenerentola” ispirata a “Lo Cunto de li Cunti“ di ... «Vesuvio Live, Jul 15»
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The Poetry of Beer Is the First Book of Beer Poems
He also spent time researching obscure and arcane poetic forms — from the clerihew to the villanelle to the ballade — and various metrical lines, from iambic ... «L.A. Weekly, Jul 15»
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"15 and a Union, Someday," a villanelle
This poem is a villanelle, a form of poetry that traces its humble roots to the Italian countryside and peasants singing rounds during the harvest. The first poetic ... «People's World, Jul 15»
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Maura Kennedy
But dammit, I don't know where I stand with Villanelle. The exquisitely ruminative “Bicycles with Broken Spokes,” “Villanelle,” “Darling Cutter,” “I Cried To Dream ... «Elmore Magazine, Jun 15»
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“Alle nozze, ai balli, ai canti! – Villanelle, moresche e canzonette …
“Alle nozze, ai balli, ai canti! – Villanelle, moresche e canzonette, napoletane”, una serata musicale e teatrale al Pompeilab. By Nicola Garofano on 1 giugno ... «MagaziNet, Jun 15»
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Villanelle, cinque secoli di canzoni
Il programma del concerto contro la violenza parte dalla antica “Fronna alla Madonna delle galline di Pagani”, prosegue con le Villanelle, l'Opera buffa ... «Corriere del Mezzogiorno, Apr 15»
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La Villanelle accueille un choeur de Crimée
près l'accueil de chorales russe et chilienne, l'ensemble vocal La Villanelle termine sa manifestation Choeurs sans frontière par la réception d'un choeur de ... «Sud Ouest, Mar 15»
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Féchain : avec la chorale La Villanelle, de vive voix et le chœur sur …
Si les prestations de la chorale de La Villanelle sont toujours appréciées, c'est bien grâce à la rigueur des répétitions. Et à l'entente entre ses membres. «La Voix du Nord, Mar 15»

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