Villanelleとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From the French villanelle, from Italian villanella, from villano (“peasant”), from Latin vīllānus (“farmhand”), from vīlla (“estate”). The origin references the pastoral themes originally associated with this form.

発音

• IPA: /vɪləˈnɛl/
• 韻: -ɛl

名詞

villanelle (plural villanelles)

1. (poetry) A type of poem, consisting of five tercets and one quatrain, with only two rhymes.
   • 1966, Louise Baughan Murdy, Sound and sense in Dylan Thomas's poetry (Studies in English Literature), The Hague: Mouton & Co, →ISBN, page 96:

     By definition the villanelle is restrictive, because it demands nineteen lines on two rhymes in six stanzas, the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the concluding quatrain.

派生語