VILLANELLE
- A nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain
- VILLANELLA, a rustic Italian song [n] / a French verse form [n VILLANELLES]
- (French) a poem consisting of five tercets and a quatrain [n -S]