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Villanelle	The Villanelle has 19 lines, 5 stanzas of three lines and 1 stanza of four lines with two rhymes and two refrains. The 1st, then the 3rd lines alternate as the last lines of stanzas 2,3,and 4, and then stanza 5 (the end) as a couplet. It is usually written in tetrameter (4 feet) or pentameter. For example, Oscar Wilde's "Theocritus," W.H. Auden's "Villanelle," Dylan Thomas' "Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night."

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