The villanelle is a 19-line fixed form poem with repeating lines, composed in five tercets (a three-line stanza, often rhyming) with a closing quatrain that ends in a rhyming couplet.

• Rhyme - aba-aba-aba-aba-aba-abaa

• Structure - 19 lines – five tercets and a closing quatrain; 6 to 11 syllables per line

• Measure/Beat - Iambic trimeter, tetrameter, or pentameter

• Common Themes - Love, loss, and challenge