Paradelle

I'm all about structure this week, weirdddd. Anyways, paradelles are some of my favorites, it's a really nice challenge! They were invented to be a parody (hence the name) to villanelles by US Poet Laureate Billy Collins. There, that's your history lesson for the day!

For all the structure lovers in the house, you're going to LOVE this! 

You've got four stanzas of six lines each. I would totally try to explain but Shadowpoetry.com does it a lot more concisely than I do: 

The Paradell Structure

First Three Stanzas:

The first two lines as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas must be the same (repeat). Where it begins to get difficult and become more of a poetic puzzle is when reaching fifth and sixth lines. These lines must contain all the words from the preceding four lines within the stanza using them only once to form completely new lines.

Last Stanza:

For the most difficult piece of this poetic puzzle, the final stanza of the paradelle does not repeat like the preceding stanzas, rather the final six lines must contain every word from the first three stanzas, and only those words, again using them only once to form completely new lines.

The Design is simple:

Stanza 1: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4  
Stanza 2: 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8
Stanza 3: 9, 9, 10, 10, 11, 12
Stanza 4: 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 

Word prompts: 

Parallel

Dimension 

Shipwreck 

Delicious 

Sentence prompts: 

O' stormy sea...

Sounding with a crunch...

In her shadow... 

Photo of the day: 

Photo courtesy of Beverly Tan Photography 

So how about that? Fun sounding huh? Now for those of you more like me (the ones who tend to be anti-formalism) remember this prompt is just a suggestion and I promise to not be offended when you go off prompt. Heck, I might be a hypocrite and go off prompt because I'm super excited about Monday's prompt. 

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1.	Bastet	17.	Steph	33.	Vellur aka Nithya Venkat
2.	Tracesofthesoul	18.	TwoPaisePoems	34.	Abbie's Adventure Diaries
3.	Wanda from Team Netherworld	19.	Esther Spurrill Jones	35.	Shan Jeniah Burton
4.	Deepti Agrawal	20.	jazzytower	36.	Greg Wolford
5.	Bastet (2)	21.	Al the Author	37.	Mark Jones
6.	the lull after. shilyot	22.	Aishah	38.	Jesi-The Lunatic Poet
7.	Payal Agarwal	23.	Here, There be a Writer	39.	Kay Winter
8.	April Wells	24.	Candy	40.	Anna Stewart
9.	Cressida	25.	Alexandra Corinth (WordsMaiden)	41.	Jennifer Cunningham
10.	AmritaPaul	26.	Camille Wylde	42.	Sunita Prasad
11.	Misky	27.	vivienne blake	43.	S. Elle Cameron
12.	Beth Camp	28.	Dawn D	44.	mindlovemisery
13.	Janet	29.	Cara Michaels	45.	Misky's Paradell
14.	Carol Campbell	30.	Grace Black	46.	Pat
15.	barbara	31.	De Jackson (WhimsyGizmo)	47.	Tortured Cyclone
16.	Morgan Dragonwillow	32.	stephan carl victor peter hudson	48.	Sigrid Saradunn

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