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How Poetry Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dilland Thomas

A villanell is a 19 line poem made up of only two end rhyme sounds that are repeated throughout the poem. The first and third lines are repeated in a specific pattern all through the poem. It's probably the most famous example of all time of the villainell, don't you think? "I love thet kind of board play a. I might start writing poetry," he says.

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