Alas Villainous Villanelle Analysis

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Alas, alas, villainous villanelle! You've done and gone and raised the gates of night Now don't you see you've brought my poem to hell? Oh, villanelle, your meter chokes me well, Your scheme of rhyme constricts my mind so tight. Alas, alas, villainous villanelle! Your bold refrain makes it easy to tell Just what the poet's thinking as he writes. Now don't you see you've brought my poem hell? Now, villanelle, hardly do your rhymes quell My humble thirst for v'riety tonight Alas, alas, villainous villanelle! I have to cheat if I am not careful To fit your meter so you're comf'table. Now don't you see you've brought my poem to hell? Oh, villanelle, a villain terrible Though “villanelle's” and “villain's” rhyme is slant. Alas, alas, villainous