You need not be an atom of a poet.
If you’ve a grain of wit and want to show it,
Writing a Villanelle—take this from me—
It’s all a trick, quite easy when you know it.
You start a pair of “rimes” and then you “go it”
With rapid running pen and fancy free,
You need not be an atom of a poet.
Take any thought, write round it or below it,
Above or near it, as it liketh thee;
It’s all a trick, quite easy when you know it.