List: Villanelle

A Villanelle is a nineteen-line poem consisting of a very specific rhyming scheme:
aba aba aba aba aba abaa.
The first and the third lines in the first stanza are repeated in alternating order throughout the poem, and appear together in the last couplet (last two lines).
Form Resource: shadowpoetry.com

• Self Pity

  Self Pity
  O how I wish that I had fled

  29 lines, 17 comments, on Feb 9 10:01 PM 2007. In Love, Dark, Villanelle
• My Tiger

  Tiger poem number one

  31 lines, 110 comments, on Feb 16 3:23 PM 2007. In Personal, Thoughts, Villanelle
• A Crowd of Two

  I met you standing in a crowd
  I caught your eye, I did my best

  25 lines, 16 comments, on Apr 14 7:55 AM 2007. In Love, Villanelle
• Out My Window

  Out My Window
  O out my window lives the sea

  27 lines, 13 comments, on Apr 20 9:35 AM 2007. In Love, Thoughts, Villanelle
• Adopted

  For my AP Dad.

  28 lines, 10 comments, on May 14 9:48 AM 2007. In Personal, Villanelle
• Breathe

  Villanelle

  25 lines, 17 comments, on Jun 23 5:55 PM 2007. In Love, Villanelle
• erased

  erased / Villanelle

  27 lines, 12 comments, on Jun 30 11:22 AM 2007. In Thoughts, Spiritual, Villanelle
• Castaway

  Villanelle

  26 lines, 19 comments, on Aug 16 12:08 PM 2007. In Sad, Villanelle
• Eidolon

  Villanelle

  26 lines, 14 comments, on Sep 5 5:27 PM 2007. In Dark, Spiritual, Villanelle
• Kiss from a Rose

  Villanelle
  

  29 lines, 25 comments, on Sep 27 9:39 PM 2007. In Life, Thoughts, Villanelle
• A Brides Vow

  Villanelle

  26 lines, 18 comments, on Jan 10 8:30 AM. In Love, Villanelle
• Fallen From Grace

  Villanelle

  26 lines, 21 comments, on Feb 8 7:16 AM. In Dark
• Musical Memories

  Villanelle

  20 lines, 14 comments, on Mar 28 5:48 PM. In Thoughts, Spiritual, Villanelle
• Last Descending Overtones

  Villanelle

  24 lines, 19 comments, on Mar 28 7:33 PM. In Dark, Villanelle
• The Cloak of Tolerance

  Villanelle

  24 lines, 16 comments, on Apr 26 9:18 PM. In Dark, Life, Thoughts, Villanelle
• Dawns' Mist

  Villanelle

  26 lines, 25 comments, on Aug 11 5:42 PM. In Thoughts, Nature

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