How does the form of the villanelle impact the meaning of Bohanon's poem? Fourteen lines are divided into an octave about the weather and a sestet about a bad dream. Repetition of two lines throughout emphasizes that the speaker is in love with someone that does not love them back, making them sad. There is no rhyme scheme or meter, which makes the poem seem like an informational paragraph about wind. The shift and the couplet explain that the subject of the poem is happy despite the rain pouring down outside.
