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What is the typical arrangement of stanzas in a villanelle?

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The first and third lines of the first stanza are repeated alternately in the subsequent stanzas of this French poetic form, which has five three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain. The quatrain's concluding couplet is made up of these two refrain lines.

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