Glad you like! Wendy Cope rocks; I'm just beginning to discover her poems. My family isn't like that either; it's been a hard job learning to cope with all the people who are totally impervious to evidence or logic.
I thought this was a villanelle, but apparently not, because:"a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain." Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath is a villanelle. I don't know what this form is called, if it has a name.
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(I have been so fortunate that my family is not like that, but yes, I know of other families who are...)
Is it a villanelle, this poem?
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I thought this was a villanelle, but apparently not, because:"a nineteen-line poem with two rhymes throughout, consisting of five tercets and a quatrain, with the first and third lines of the opening tercet recurring alternately at the end of the other tercets and with both repeated at the close of the concluding quatrain."
Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath is a villanelle. I don't know what this form is called, if it has a name.
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It does have a villanelle feel to it, this poem...I've another LJ friend I'll ask, she might know.
I like "a dainty thing's the villanelle"--have you seen that one?
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