villanelle

Meaning

Noun

A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.

Origin

From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano, from Latin villanus ("farmhand"), from villa. The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.

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