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The Villanelle Generator

A procedurally generated villanelle on the theme of memory. These are not Dylan Thomas—no algorithm could be—but they follow his form.

night
time
memory
love
nature
loss
hope
wandering
When scents unlock the years, I know the fast The photographs grow sepia lingers in the refined And what returns now will always mind Though stories retold change through the contrast We learn to let the touch recalls the lost find When scents unlock the years, I know the fast What seems so contrast might come to outcast And every stories retold change will returns and behind And what returns now will always mind The fast holds more than meets the eye While something lingers in the mind When scents unlock the years, I know the fast We cannot know how contrast will try To shape what returns beneath the refined And what returns now will always mind So when the scents unlock the years lingers by And photographs grow sepia returns in the find When scents unlock the years, I know the fast And what returns now will always mind

Seed a Villanelle

Enter any word to generate a unique villanelle:

About Generated Villanelles

These villanelles are assembled from word banks themed to their subject matter. Each theme contains ten rhyming words for the 'a' sound, ten for the 'b' sound, ten images, and ten verbs. The generator constructs refrains and fills in the tercets according to the traditional pattern.

The results are imperfect by design—no algorithm can match human craft. But they demonstrate the form's structure and might spark your own attempts.