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  • James
    March 5, 2009

    Best villanelle in the English language after – “Do not go gently into that good night”

  • septi
    May 28, 2009

    Can you send me a villanelle by female poets in this era circa 2000-2008.
    I can’t remember her name but her poem is known-well and it is for use in analyzing poet.
    I study English literature and last week my lecturer gave us an example of villanelle.
    Please give me the poem of villanelle by female poets of this era.
    Thanks.

    Best regards,
    Septi

  • septi
    May 28, 2009

    If I’m not mistaken one of the villanelles that my lecturer gave as examples was using this sentence ‘this is the game that I don’t want to play,..’ , etc..

    Please send me that poem and the analyzed review of the poem.

    thanks.

    Best regards,
    Septi

  • Pere
    August 13, 2009

    I can’t tell whether that’s spam, or whether someone would really be that barefaced and lazy.

    In other news, this is definitely one of the best examples of that form ever! But now I’m hungry.

  • Declan
    August 24, 2009

    If it is spam, it’s the most ineffective I’ve ever come across, but I’m inclined to think that there are people that lazy out there.

    Anyway, I love this one.

  • Rivka
    September 13, 2009

    I love this poetic form. And I love this installment. ^-^ Some oddball cafe should start selling Villanelle sandwiches.

    But now I want to know what goes on the Sestina. . . .

  • Emily
    September 28, 2009

    If I end up running a café I will sell poetic sandwiches. I will sell Villanelles and Elegies and Sonnets (Shakespearian and Petrarchan), Epics with rhyming or heroic couplet, and General Verse with your choice of Free, Alexandrine, Quartet or Trochaic Pentameter.

    I can’t afford to own a café.

  • Joel
    December 13, 2009

    My first thought after “This strip is fucking genius” was probably “That sandwich would be fucking huge”. Aren’t I insightful?

  • Jo
    December 30, 2009

    Oh yeah, this comic lead to a month long obsession with villanelles for me. After which I still hadn’t managed to write one.

    I never even worked out a satisfactory haiku about villanelles.

    It was a terrible time, for me.

  • JakeB
    September 12, 2010

    I can’t tell whether it’s just the line “Above this tower one judgmental eye” plus the “lie” rhyme at the end, but I keep thinking this poem refers to back to something in the Lord of the Rings.

  • theoxfordgirl
    October 29, 2010

    Genius. I’m going to go make one right now.

  • 1SpacyHammond
    February 3, 2011

    In Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first piece of Stephen Dedalous’s art that the reader gets to see is “Villanelle of the Temptress,” which is mostly about the Virgin/whore paradigm. Septi, it’s been aear and a half now – did you get your homework done?

  • Draganddrop
    July 9, 2011

    That doesn’t sound like it would taste very good…

  • Andy
    October 27, 2011

    My name’s Octi, and
    can you please haiku
    for my spring homework?

    Somewhere someone wrote
    one about plum blossoms on
    a butterfly tree.

    A tummy full of
    bean sprouts from a tall sandwich
    make Cat so sleepy,

    And Girl’s winter
    of discontent complements
    his zen-like aplomb.

  • Frankie Boyle Goes to Hollywood
    January 31, 2012

    Slowly the sandwich the whole bloodstream fills
    The crust remains, the crust remains and kills

  • greg
    February 3, 2017

    There once was a cat at a rest’rant
    who couldn’t decide what to want
    so he said “what the hell?
    I’ll have the villanelle!”
    And I don’t know what to write for the last line of the limrick

  • George W Harris
    May 16, 2018

    Is it whole wheat or is it rye? It can’t very well be both as they are entirely different grains.

  • meagain
    September 5, 2019

    Here I am again in the late summer of 2019 because I never get over how much I love this. Thank you.

  • Dorothy
    September 16, 2019

    Thank you!

    But in 2019 the Villanelle should be a sandwich whose items are arranged according to the rhyme scheme.

    Limerick: Bread, bread, cold cut, cold cut, bread.

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