Winter In Minnesota Is Not For The Weak And Childhood Can Be Rough.

"Villanelle is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated

A tercet is a stanza with only three lines, and a quatrain is a stanza with four lines. Thus, the villanelle has nineteen total lines. There is also a pattern of two refrains, which are repeated lines in a poem or verse. Therefore, in a villanelle, two different lines repeat throughout the poem.

 Lines may be of any length, but are often written in iambic pentameter and follow an ABA rhyme scheme."

Practicing the French villanelle:

Winter in Minnesota is not for the weak

 Good for you for being a snowbird

 We may follow you in another week

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Oh, it has been tough for me, so to speak

 Arizona, Florida, Mexico I'd be as happy as that bluebird

Winter in MN is not for the weak

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Sounds good today but I can't freak

 Don't always take my word

 We may follow you in another week

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I like the idea of a mountain peak

I couldn't live there I've heard

 Winter in MN is not for the weak

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It wouldn't hurt to take a peek

 The snow has made it awfully blurred

 We may follow you in another week

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Maybe we could sneak

 A peek on the third

 Winter in MN is not for the weak

 We may follow you in another week

February 22, 2019

 Poem a day in February

Practicing the French villanelle 2:

Childhood can be tough

 It doesn't have to be

 Some have it real rough

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Many will never have enough

 We won't always see

Childhood can be tough

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For many years we may bluff

 Note I'm talking we

 Some have it real rough

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You may think it's all just fluff

 You'll never know what it was like for me

Childhood can be tough

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So I need to get off my duff

 I could've been an amputee

 Some have it real rough

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Pick me up by the scruff

 I wasn't an adoptee

 Childhood can be tough

 Some have it real rough