vil·la·nelle (v l  -n l )n. A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain. [French, from Italian villanella, from feminine of villanello, rustic, from villano, peasant, from Vulgar Latin *v  ll nus, from Latin vlla, country house; see weik-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
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