Villanelle
A villanelle (or occasionally villonelle) is a poem of nineteen lines, named for the French poet Francois Villon (1431-1474). It consists of five stanzas of three lines each (rhyme scheme A B A) with a quatrain (A B A A) at the end. In addition to the rhyme scheme, the first and third lines alternately recur throughout, and are repeated as the last two lines of the quatrain (see /Example).Originally a French poetic form, it isn't easily adaptable to English (a notable exception being Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night".)
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always kept it ready for his return, as though she expected him daily.
articles he had brought, and took them upstairs with him.
He would gladly have greeted the faithful nurse of his childhood at once,
delay below, his wish to have his first meeting with the woman he loved
CHAPTER IV.
In spite of the darkness and the zigzag turns of the stairs, Wolf was so
grope his way with his hand.
He found the door.html">door of the Blomberg lodgings open. Putting down in the
carrying the roll of velvet under his arm and a little box in his pocket,
was in total darkness, but through the narrow open door in the middle of
windowed room. This was quite brightly lighted, for she was ironing and
candles and also by the coals which heated the irons.
As she bent over the glow, it shone into her beautiful face and upon her
round.html">round head or fell in thick waves to her hips. The red kerchief which
neck and was hanging on the corner of the ironing board. Her stockings
whose whiteness and beauty of form vied with the round arms which, after
Wolf's mind. Now he stood before a maiden in the full bloom of her
depths of his nature.
In spite of her immature youth, he had cherished her in his inmost
creature. The quiet longing which had mastered him was transformed into
will peculiar to him, for a voice within cried out that he was too
which he had once given her for a birthday present, sprinkled the linen
sol, la' of Perissone Cambio's singing lesson, new wonder seized him.
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