Hi everyone!   Over the years, we had written about sonnet and villanelle as poetry forms.  There is recently an invented poetry form that takes some of the elements of the villanelle and sonnet – villonnet.  The Villonnet was created by D. Allen Jenkins.

A Villonnet is a hybrid of the Villanelle and the Sonnet. It has the Iambic Pentameter of both, but holds the four-stanza/line structure of the sonnet, while utilizing the two-line rhyme nature of the villanelle. The final stanza replaces the sonnet couplet with a typical villanelle tercet.   Source

The elements of the Villonnet are:

*a poem in 15 lines, made up of 3 quatrains followed by a tercet.
*metric, iambic pentameter.
*rhymed, either keeping the 2 rhymes of the Villanelle or eliminating the second  rhyme of the Villanelle and rhyming only the anterior lines of the stanzas. A¹bbA² abbA¹ abbA² A¹bA² or A¹xxA² axxA¹ axxA² A¹xA² x being unrhymed, or A¹bbA² accA¹ addA² A¹bA².
*Line 1 is repeated in Line 8 and Line 13. And Line 4 is repeated in Line 12 and Line 15.

September sky
by Grace Guevara

paint me a sky of apple green & red
as flocks of geese fly off as summer kites
the air is cooler with sun’s fading light
autumn arrives, muted colors & dreads –

the harvest of pumpkins & plums is spread
on table with berrries & gourds weaved tight
on my canvas of hemp & cotton white
paint me a sky of apple green & red

i watch the rain hammer the browning beds
as maple leaves start to yellow in sight
dead flower heads begin to roll, a blight
autumn arrives, muted colors & dreads

painting a sky of apple green & red
moody as bees, lush as pears with first bite-
autumn arrives, muted colors & dreads

The writing challenge is to write a villonnet as described above with any theme of your choice.

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