065 ☣ fish for fallen light

[fridgetothefire]

If you know me, I probably miss you. And maybe even if you don't.

[She repeats this Romani, and then Russian, and then German. And then ASL.]

Comments

[dinosize]

...I'm poem-like?

[fridgetothefire]

A human villanelle.

[Nineteen lines; precision, repetition, echoes and rhymes and refrains. More curled in on himself than the zippered scheme of a sonnet, not a syllable wasted.

She is very pleased with this comparison, nods grandly.]

[dinosize]

I've no idea what that means.

[fridgetothefire]

It's a very specific form. Sleekly efficient, which is the point of poetic restriction.

Strong tercets, and interlocking double-barreled refrains that crop up stubbornly again and again. A historical tendency toward bleakness or dry humor.

Would you like examples?

[dinosize]

No thanks.