villanelle: Meaning and Definition of

vil•la•nelle

Pronunciation: (vil"u-nel'), [key]
— n. Pros.
  1. a short poem of fixed form, written in tercets, usually five in number, followed by a final quatrain, all being based on two rhymes.
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