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A villanelle is

A. a formal poem using extensive repetition.
B. a narrative poem written in blank verse.
C. a type of complex sonnet.
D. a favorite technique of John Donne.

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A villanelle is A. a formal poem using extensive repetition.

It is a nineteen line poem which has five tercets followed by a quatrain. Tercet meaning 3 lines, quatrain meaning 4 lines.

It contains two refrains and two repeating rhymes. Where the first and third line is the first tercet is repeated alternately throughout the poem.

Examples of a villanelle are:
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
The Home on the Hill by Edward Arlington Robinson
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