
| Such a Pity: a Paradelle
Author: Unready A nice form of poetry that I just discovered.
Rated: Fiction K - English - Words: 304 - Reviews: 1 - Published: 08-16-05 - id: 1987339
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"Such a pity, this
is"
Such a pity, this is
That you see it
clearly?
That you see it
clearly.
"Clearly this is
pity"
Such that it see you a—
Sometime soon this will
end
Sometime soon this will
end!
The torment you endure
(The torment you
endure)
Some time you endure
this:
The torment will end
soon
Say what you mean in
love
Say what? You mean in
love?
Then tell him your
feelings
Then tell him, your
feelings
What say you in your
love?
Tell him mean feelings,
then.
Your "such a—,"
then the
Love will end, sometime
soon.
Clearly, you see
feelings
Pity him, in torment.
Say what you mean this
is;
Tell him that you
endure.
A/N-- exploration of a form (the paradelle) thet I have recently discovered.
a
a
b
b
(combo of words from a and b)
(same combo of words from a and b)
c
c
d
d
(combo of words from c and d)
(same combo of words from c and d)
e
e
f
f
(combo of words from e and f)
(same combo of words from e and f)
Six lines,
using each word
used in lines
a,b,c,d,e,
and f
only once
The origin of the paradelle was to make fun of the villanelle, but unlike it's more serious counterpart, the paradelle has no rhyming requirements. Punctuation can be changed at will, and it doesn't even really need to make sense. The only real structure is that there must be 6 syllables in every line. Thanks beti213 for the form description (check out her site for paradelles much better than this one!)
I may note that ALL of the words in the four lines (i.e. aa, bb) MUST be used in the two lines proceeding them.
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