Tuesday, October 2, 2012

I Love You (Villanelle) Comments

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(after Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

I love you with feelings that are true and right,
as our relationship has come with Godly grace,
I do love you through every day and night,
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Gert Strydom
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Technical Critic 27 February 2022

You did a fairly good job, except that MENACE does not rhyme with any of the other words that end with ACE. The stress is on the wrong syllable, and the unstressed A does not have the 'long' A sound like the others.

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Kim Barney 10 March 2017

I've never tried to write a villanelle before, but you seem to have done a very good job with this one, and may just have inspired me to try it. Thanks!

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Gert Strydom

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