00:00Poetry writing for kids.
00:04Topic 8 Writing a Villanelle
00:09A poem can be a collection of words that expresses feelings or ideas, sometimes with a specific
00:15meaning, sound, or rhythm.
00:18A villanelle is a structured French verse poem.
00:22The word villanelle comes from the Italian word villanelle, which means peasant.
00:29During the Renaissance, the villanella or villanzico were Italian and Spanish dance
00:34songs.
00:36French poets, who called their poems villanelle, did not write their poetry with any structure.
00:43Instead, they wrote about the ideal country life, which explored the human connection
00:48with nature or rustic themes.
00:51It wasn't until the 19th century the villanelle was defined as a structured form of poetry
00:57by the French poet Theodore de Bonneville.
01:01The first structured villanelle was written by a French poet named Jean Passerrat in 1606.
01:07Nowadays, some common themes for a villanelle are love, loss, time, seasons, and obsession.
01:19A villanelle is made up of 19 lines.
01:22These lines follow a strict structure of five tercets, three-line stanzas, followed
01:28by one quatrain, four-line stanza.
01:32Villanelles follow a specific rhyme pattern of ABA for the tercets and ABAA for the quatrain.
01:42Structure is how the words of a poem are organized.
01:45A stanza is a group of lines separated from other groups of lines by a blank line or indentation.
01:52A verse is a stanza that doesn't have a specific number of lines, but it all goes together
01:57and makes sense.
01:59A refrain is a line or group of lines regularly repeated in a poem, usually at the beginning
02:05or end of a poem.
02:08Let's take a look at one of the first villanelles ever written by French poet Jean Passerrat.
02:15This poem is called I Lost My Turtle Dove.
02:21I have lost my turtle dove.
02:23Isn't that her gentle coo?
02:25I will go find my love.
02:28Here you mourn your mated love.
02:30Oh God, I am mourning too.
02:33I have lost my turtle dove.
02:36If you trust your faithful dove, trust my faith is just as true.
02:41I will go and find my love.
02:45Plaintively you speak your love.
02:47All my speech is turned into, I have lost my turtle dove.
02:52Such a beauty was my dove.
02:55Other beauties will not do.
02:56I will go and find my love.
02:59Death, again entreated of, take one who is offered you.
03:05I have lost my turtle dove.
03:08I will go and find my love.
03:10Okay, let's look at the structure of this poem.
03:15The first line of the poem, I have lost my turtle dove, is repeated at the end of the
03:21second and fourth tercets as well as the third line of the quatrain.
03:26The third line of the poem, I will go and find my love, is repeated at the end of the
03:32third and fifth tercets.
03:34The ABA rhyme pattern for the tercets and ABAA rhyme scheme for the quatrain are underlined
03:43to help you see the pattern of a villanelle.
03:46Also notice that the words of the other lines follow the rhyming pattern.
03:52Now I will write my own villanelle poem.
03:57First I will need to brainstorm a theme for my poem.
04:01I will write about my lost puppy.
04:05Then I will need to think about the two lines that I want to repeat in my villanelle.
04:11These lines should focus on the theme of my poem.
04:15Next I will need to use rhyming words that follow the structure of ABA for the tercets
04:21and ABAA for the quatrain.
04:25Last I will need to put my words together for my readers.
04:30Let's try it.
04:33Before I start, there are several ways to plan out a poem.
04:37You can either make a list of words that describe the subject or theme of your poem,
04:42or you can create a mind map to help you organize your thoughts.
04:48Then you can plan out what words go together to create the perfect image of your subject
04:53in your reader's minds.
04:57The title of my poem will be, Where is my puppy?
05:03Where is my puppy?
05:04Is that her gentle woof?
05:06I must go and find my pup.
05:10I am lost without her.
05:12I will find my lost pup.
05:14Where is my puppy?
05:16I found her chew bone.
05:18I found her soft blanket.
05:20Where is my puppy?
05:22She must be hungry.
05:24She must feel alone.
05:26I must go and find my pup.
05:29Where would she have gone?
05:30She couldn't have gone far.
05:33Where is my puppy?
05:35She hasn't eaten lunch.
05:37Her water bowl is untouched.
05:39Hopefully she is okay.
05:40I must go and find my pup.
05:43I did it!
05:46I wrote a villanelle about my lost puppy.
05:50My poem has 19 lines that include 5 tercets and 1 quatrain.
05:56My poem also follows the ABA-ABAA pattern scheme.
06:03Now it's your turn.
06:07First you will need to brainstorm a theme for your poem.
06:11Then you will need to think about the two lines that you want to repeat in your villanelle.
06:17These lines should focus on the theme of your poem.
06:21Next you will need to use rhyming words that follow the structure of ABA for the tercets
06:27and ABAA for the quatrain.
06:31Next you will need to put your words together for your readers.
06:37Would you like to learn how you could write any type of poem?
06:41Then be sure to check out the next video in this series called Writing an Ode Poem to
06:46learn how you can write your own ode poem from start to finish.
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