Vilannelle, Terza rima, sestenet

A vilanelle is a 19 line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanze, which includes both repeated lines.

A Terza Rima is a rhyming verse stanza form that consists of an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme. It was first used by Alighieri.

A sestenet is a group of six lines of poetry.

Here is an example of a vilanelle:

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night, Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night, Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

THE ART OF POETRY

"ARS POETICA"

*QUEUE THE BEAT*

THERE ONCE WAS A MAN
WHO OWNED HIS OWN LAND
HAD A WIFE WHO SIMPLY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND
HE HAD AMBITIONS AND DREAMS
THAT HAD BEEN WIPED CLEAN
HE WITHDREW FROM HIS CAREER TO PURSUE HIS GREED
HE HAD NOWHERE TO RUN
SO HE JUST SAT DOWN
PULLED OUT SOME PAPER AND HAD JUST WROTE DOWN
HE FOUND HIS ESCAPE
IN THE DIMENSIONS OF HIS MIND
NOBODY ELSE HAD UNDERSTOOD HIS KIND
AND WHEN HE PASSED ON
HE LEFT US THIS SONG
TO SHOW US THAT POETRY WILL ALWAYS LIVE ON

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