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Recent Examples of villanelle
From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, villanelle was simply the French term for an Italian country song, and during the Renaissance, poets often used the title for their work regardless of a poem’s specific structure.
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The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 19 Aug. 2025
Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.
—Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
—Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
But then, rarely does an individual strip contain a complete and proper villanelle about food.
—Wired Blogs, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2006
The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 19 Aug. 2025
Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.
—Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
—Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
But then, rarely does an individual strip contain a complete and proper villanelle about food.
—Wired Blogs, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2006
Recent Examples of Synonyms for villanelle
Noun
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The tracklist includes songs set in every season and a sonnet-like ode to an ice-cold Staropramen.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2026
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If Wyatt and Surrey could pen brilliant sonnets under Tudor tyranny, then certainly great art can be produced under capitalism despite its particular degradations.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Which poem, and why did the killjoys at the magazine turn it down?—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026
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His story is written into the San Jose Unified School District curriculum, where students write poems about his life and work.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
22 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The Eater line is a partnership between Heritage and the food site that launched last year, but six new pieces were added this year, including a mini sauté pan ($120) and a roomy six-quart rondeau pan ($180) that’s perfect for searing, pan roasting, and simmering.—
BYChris Morris,
Fortune,
27 Nov. 2024
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The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau.—
Molly Allen,
Southern Living,
12 Aug. 2024
Noun
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These can then be assembled to capture the ladder of logical complexity: patterns of patterns, such as limericks or subject-verb agreement.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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There are some touching moments, dirty limericks and a good balance of characters presented by veterans of the scene.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
2 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.—
Mark Z. Barabak,
Mercury News,
10 Dec. 2025
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That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
30 July 2025
Noun
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In Berceuse Parish, there are so many elegies.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Feb. 2026
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The show, a sort of elegy for Gen X, opens with a flash-forward to July 16, 1999, the final hours of Carolyn and John.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2026
Noun
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After all, audiences may be captivated by the psalm singing itself, but then can also find more things that capture their imagination in the observational doc.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Feb. 2026
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Gallagher is also excited about Psalms of the People (Salim Nan Daoine), Jack Archer’s Gaelic-language documentary about Scotland’s cultural heritage of traditional Gaelic psalm singing.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
25 Feb. 2026
Noun
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Friday’s bar event was a direct ode to that sensibility, combined with the notion that such monitoring could also lead to a financial windfall.—
Gary Grumbach,
NBC news,
21 Mar. 2026
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The tracklist includes songs set in every season and a sonnet-like ode to an ice-cold Staropramen.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
21 Mar. 2026
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“Villanelle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villanelle. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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