03-30-2014, 02:43 AM
Mark,
Actually I was just making a joke, combining Billy with villanelle. because it had some of the elements of a villanelle, as in the repetition of the line "he was off to face the dragon". I probably should have written it "Billyanelle" but I was afraid no one would get the joke...which I guess they didn't anyway. I'm not smart simply clever, and sometimes to clever for my own good
Personally, as I have said on many occasions, I hate villanelles. If one were going to label this as a form it would be a
doggerel. It is comic, and does not follow a set meter, although you do repeat the pattern of the initial stanza throughout the poem. To me, that is just as admirable, if not more so, than writing something in straight meter, as it requires a set, but irregular pattern to be followed each time. So when I say doggerel, I do not mean it in any disparaging way.
Dale
Actually I was just making a joke, combining Billy with villanelle. because it had some of the elements of a villanelle, as in the repetition of the line "he was off to face the dragon". I probably should have written it "Billyanelle" but I was afraid no one would get the joke...which I guess they didn't anyway. I'm not smart simply clever, and sometimes to clever for my own good
Personally, as I have said on many occasions, I hate villanelles. If one were going to label this as a form it would be a
doggerel. It is comic, and does not follow a set meter, although you do repeat the pattern of the initial stanza throughout the poem. To me, that is just as admirable, if not more so, than writing something in straight meter, as it requires a set, but irregular pattern to be followed each time. So when I say doggerel, I do not mean it in any disparaging way.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.