Write a Villanelle

The Rustic Concert

Form: this week, each Creative Writing Club member tried to write a villanelle, a kind of pastoral poem that has its origins in French or Italian. Aside from attempting to use the form, we added the theme of love to guide our choice of language.

Merriam-Webster defines a villanelle "as a chiefly French verse form running on two rhymes and consisting typically of five tercets and a quatrain in which the first and third lines of the opening tercet recur alternately at the end of the other tercets and together as the last two lines of the quatrain." It probably sounds more difficult than it is. While the description above may not make much sense to you, if you would like to learn more, read about what makes a villanelle special by reading ours...