Jesus this looks hard and I haven't had any inspiration all week. Here are the rules.
Within the first stanza, the first and third lines become the A and B refrains, respectively. In each ensuing stanza, the poet must alternate refrain A and refrain B in the third line. In the last stanza, the refrains must appear in the final two lines in the stanza. With me so far? If that weren’t difficult enough, the stanzas must be written in iambic pentameter and use an ABA rhyme scheme. Basically, a villanelle should look like this:
1 Refrain A (a)
2 any line (b)
3 Refrain B (a)
4 any line (a)
5 any line (b)
6 Refrain A
7 any line (a)
8 any line (b)
9 Refrain B
10 any line (a)
11 any line (b)
12 Refrain A
13 any line (a)
14 any line (b)
15 Refrain B
16 any line (a)
17 any line (b)
18 Refrain A (a)
19 Refrain B (a)
I still loved him
My father never did quite understand
Exactly how to be dedicated
Living half his life in a wonderland
Stories told often left him in quicksand
Where he tended to be suffocated
My father never did quite understand
Riding along in a sailboat unmanned
Sometimes becoming alienated
Living half his life in a wonderland
Refusing to let horizons expand
Others ideas leaving him frustrated
My father never did quite understand
Fully extended he ignored the hand
Feeling they would have manipulated
Living half his life in a wonderland
If he ever learns to play with the band
Maybe he'll be loved, instead of hated
My father never did quite understand
Living half his life in a wonderland
This took like an hour! Too long-ahhhhh!
More poems will be posted Thursday-sorry I am slacking but I have four finished-just have a concert to leave for right now!
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