Villanelle

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Villanelle

Trying to write a villanelle.  Need instruction.

Much obliged 

 

Hi, all very technical and I 'm a mechanical kind of guy , hope that makes sense: refrain, tercets, quatrains.... it's all mud to me.  Going to study the link again and try.  Appreciate you taking the time.  

 

Tercet- three lines, quatrain - four lines. So a villanelle will have five stanzas of three lines each followed by a final stanza of four lines all of which follow the pattern on the link. Hope that helps. :)

 

I have a headache, just tell me where to shoot.

 

Why not copy the form of one of the examples? 

 

Or just have a go and if it isn't quite right you can tweak it or call it 'in the style of a villanelle'...

 

Grrrrr....