Villanelle (disambiguation)

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A villanelle is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain.

Villanelle fixed verse form; nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain

A villanelle, also known as villanesque, is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately at the end of each subsequent stanza until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed verse form. The word derives from Latin, then Italian, and is related to the initial subject of the form being the pastoral.

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Villanelle may also refer to:

Fiction

Villanelle (character) Fictional assassin

Villanelle, birth name Oxana Vorontsova or Oksana Astankova, is a fictional character in Luke Jennings’ novel Codename Villanelle (2018), its sequel Killing Eve: No Tomorrow (2019), and the BBC America television series adaptation Killing Eve (2018—) in which she is portrayed by English actress Jodie Comer. She is a psychopathic assassin who works for a crime syndicate called The Twelve, and the arch-nemesis of British intelligence agent Eve Polastri. Their mutually obsessive relationship is the main focus of both the novels and the TV series.

Music

Villanelle, FP 74, by Francis Poulenc is a piece of chamber music composed in 1934. It was written for recorder and piano. The execution time is about 2 minutes.

Eva Dell'Acqua was a Belgian singer and composer of Italian ancestry.

See also

<i>Killing Eve: No Tomorrow</i>

Killing Eve: No Tomorrow is a 2019 thriller novel by British author Luke Jennings that is a sequel to his 2018 e-book compilation, Codename Villanelle. The novels are the basis of BBC America's television series Killing Eve (2018—).

In music, a villanella is a form of light Italian secular vocal music which originated in Italy just before the middle of the 16th century. It first appeared in Naples, and influenced the later canzonetta, and from there also influenced the madrigal.

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