VILLANELLE

Definitions: VILLANELLE

VILLANELLE

Noun

1. A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close.

Plural

1. Of Villanella

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "VILLANELLE" was first used: 1586. (references)

Crosswords: VILLANELLE

Etymologies containing "VILLANELLE": Villanel, Villanella. (references)

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Specialty Definition: Villanelle

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

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. An example of a villanelle is Edwin Arlington Robinson's The House On The Hill.

Originally a French poetic form, it is not easily adaptable to English (a notable exception being Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night".)

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Villanelle."

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Use in Literature: VILLANELLE

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Conscious of his desire she was waking from odorous sleep, the temptress of his villanelle.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: VILLANELLE

"VILLANELLE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "VILLANELLE" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	4	175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: VILLANELLE

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
villanelle	38
poem villanelle	8
poetry villanelle	3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Ancestral Language Translations: VILLANELLE

Language	Period	Translations
Italian	900-Modern	villanella. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: VILLANELLE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "VILLANELLE": villanelles. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"VILLANELLE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bilinelli, Filinelle, Vallenilla, vilenelle, villainelle. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: VILLANELLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-l-l-l-l-n-v"
	-4 letters: alevin, allele, alvine, leaven, lienal, lineal, nellie, valine, veinal, venial, villae, vineal.
	-5 letters: alien, aline, alive, allee, anele, anile, anvil, elain, ileal, leave, level, levin, liane, lieve, liven, naevi, naive, navel, nieve, nival, veena, venae, venal, villa, vinal.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-l-l-l-l-n-v"
	+1 letter: villanelles.
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