Lesson 32
Q1.) Describe a villanelle by explicating the stanza pattern and the rhyme scheme of this poem. How many different end rhymes are in the poem? How many times is each sound repeated? Which words are repeated exactly at the ends of lines, in what pattern? How does the last stanza use the rhyming words? Why is this appropriate at the end of the poem?
A1.) A villanelle consists of nineteen lines with five stanzas of three lines and a last stanza of four lines of any length or meter, and two rhymes only in an aba pattern that follows this pattern: line 1 is repeated as lines 6, 12, and 18 and line 3 is repeated as lines 9, 15, and 19. There are 2 different end lines in the poem. The words that are repeated at the exactly at the end of the lines are; hello, and no/know. The pattern of the repeating words is that the words are always in the “A” part of the ABA pattern. The last stanza uses the rhyming words to end the poem by repeating “We know, we know” in order to end the idea of the poem. This is appropriate at the end of the poem because it ends the poem nicely.
Q2.) Isolating the b rhymes (middle line of each tercet) gives us this list: fine, wine, nine, line, pine, sign. What is the significance of each of these words to the whole poem?
A2.) The significance of these words to the whole poem is that words relate to the steps for starting, developing, and ending a relationship.
Q3.) Incremental repetition tends to augment meaning and accumulate significance. What variations in meaning are present in the following groups of repetitions and what is their effect?
A3.) I don’t quite understand what exactly this question wants….but I think the answer is that the repetition in the first group is showing how the relationship started and developed but the next group is showing how during the relationship the author doubted the importance of the relationship of the feelings of the other person in the relationship and feared being rejected or feared the end. Then, in the third group the author is saying that her fears were true and that she knew all along. Also she is saying that everyone else knew the fate of the relationship because it is like a classic story. She is reflecting on the relationship.
