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Recent Examples of villanelle
Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.
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Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
—Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
But then, rarely does an individual strip contain a complete and proper villanelle about food.
—Wired Blogs, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2006
Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
—Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend.
—Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 8 July 2019
But then, rarely does an individual strip contain a complete and proper villanelle about food.
—Wired Blogs, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2006
Recent Examples of Synonyms for villanelle
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Artificial intelligence has never been more powerful, constantly expanding its litany of flexes — from generating sonnets and fantastical images to believably mimicking emotions, all while churning through mountains of data faster than any human being could.Adriana Lee, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024
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And that a major plot in the novels involves sentient, talking animals that love sonnets and science?Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
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The title that Moss has chosen for her memoir riffs on a poem that May Swenson published in 1978.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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That last work is a room-size installation that lists the names of 262 deceased men and women next to a neon sign that reads a dream, invoking a poem by Langston Hughes.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
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Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
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On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
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And a poetry unit for fifth graders would include psalms from the Old Testament taught alongside poems from Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.Amanda Musa, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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Mourners sang psalms as the space filled — not near the plot where Goldberg-Polin would be buried, as initially planned, but in the main parking lot to accommodate the crowds.Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024
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The book, per its publisher, is an ode to the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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“Villanelle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/villanelle. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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