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VILLAINY

The Mail

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

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To the forms an infidel,

I ask the Crimson cockerel:

what the hell is a villanelle?

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Sokolov rings the tocsin bell

from the Bloody Citadel;

I, to the forms an infidel,

might write the kinds of doggerel

called rondel, virelai, noel:

but what the hell is a villanelle?

I confess I am unprosodical,

undiacritical, cannot spell,

am to the forms an infidel;

I admit my sins poetical,

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