Been messing about with poems lately and rediscovered something I wrote 5 years ago when I was fiddling with villanelles. I’ve always thought it’s good practice to write to strict rules before breaking them, freestyle like. But I was clearly a tad frustrated with the severe demands of the villanelle and resorted to the ease of the 5, 7, 5 no rhyme necessary form:
Villanelle, your form
Is inspirational, but
A pain in the arse
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