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Villanelle by ~michaelritchie200:iconmichaelritchie200:

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I have to write a villanelle,
A highly constrictive poetic style.
I’d rather be roasting away in hell.

The rhyme scheme’s tough, it gives us hell.
I’ll probably be off by about a mile,
But I have to write a villanelle.

My brain has gone A.W.O.L.
This poem will not be compiled.
I’d rather be roasting away in hell

Than trying to get my body to expel
A poem as slippery as a reptile.
I have to write a villanelle.

My stress over this poem the tarot does foretell.
I don’t think I will ever again smile.
I’d rather be roasting away in hell.

This isn’t very good, but on it I shan’t dwell.
It’s already starting to make me hostile.
I have to write a villanelle;
I’d rather be roasting away in hell.
©2008 ~michaelritchie200
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Children, if you're ever in a poetry class and the teacher says, "Now, today we're going to be writing villanelles", then run while you can.

There is nothing fun about them.

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~Ungregariousoddity:iconUngregariousoddity: Feb 27, 2008, 4:16:23 AM
Haha boy you hate those Villanelles. What did your teacher say about it?

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Conformity is for children. Eccentricity is the quality of Gods
~michaelritchie200:iconmichaelritchie200: Feb 27, 2008, 4:53:32 AM
She liked it, but someone else in the class had done exactly the same concept haha.

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"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one ... but still, they come."
~Bosshamster:iconBosshamster: Feb 28, 2008, 10:27:04 AM
There is nothing fun about them? How can you say that? The villanelle is one of my absolute favourite forms of poetry, to read or to write!

PS. They kind of have to be in iambic pentameter... >_>

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"Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo."
~michaelritchie200:iconmichaelritchie200: Feb 28, 2008, 11:33:27 AM
I know they do, but the lecturer went easy on us since we were struggling with the rest of it too. Argh!

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"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one," he said.
"The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one ... but still, they come."
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