Structure
Nineteen Lines Total: A villanelle consists of 19 lines divided into five tercets (three-line stanzas) and a final quatrain (four-line stanza).

Rhyme Scheme: The rhyme scheme is ABA for the tercets and ABAA for the final quatrain.

Refrain Lines: The first and third lines of the first tercet are repeated alternately as the last lines of the subsequent tercets and then both are repeated as the last two lines of the final quatrain.

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Midnight dream

In midnight’s grasp, the dreamer softly sighs,
The stars align in...