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Write a Villanelle [1]

Poetry [2]
2.19.13

Choose two favorite lines from a working draft of a poem that needs revision. Write a villanelle, using those lines for the refrains. See the Academy of American Poets' website [3] for more about the villanelle form [4], a poem of nineteen lines made up of five stanzas with three lines each. 


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/write_a_villanelle [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/poetry [3] http://www.poets.org [4] http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5796