This document provides an overview of two forms of poetry: the sonnet and the villanelle. It explains that the sonnet traditionally has 14 lines with a specific rhyme scheme, while the villanelle uses repetition of lines and has a strict 19 line structure with 5 tercets and a final quatrain. The document was written by Melissa J. Sites as a crash course on these poetic forms.

1. A Crash Course in
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 “The problem is usually developed in the first
three quatrains, each quatrain with a new idea
growing out of the previous one. Sometimes the
first two quatrains are devoted to the same
thought, resembling the octave of the Petrarchan
sonnet, and followed by a similar volta.”

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