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The Paradelle is a mock French form invented by Billy Collins as a parody of some of the more rule-based forms that earnest but unskilled poets mangle in their attempts to force the poem to fit the rules.
It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and sixth lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only these words.
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This crazy life is like an onion.
This crazy life is like an onion.
designed to make everyone weep.
Designed to make everyone weep
an onion is life designed crazy
to make everyone weep like this.
Each layer reveals more layers.
Each layer reveals more layers
nothing changes the outlook,
nothing changes the outlook.
The outlook more layers, each
layer reveals nothing changes.
As life vegetates, under the skin
as life vegetates, under the skin,
only the juice brings zip and vim,
only the juice brings zip and vim.
Zip under the skin and as life
brings vim, juice only vegetates.
This crazy onion vegetates as life,
zip under the skin and weep.
Only designed to layer, is the outlook
nothing brings changes?
Make everyone like more layers,
as each juice reveals the vim.
It is a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and fourth lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and sixth lines, which traditionally resolve these stanzas, must use all the words from the preceding lines and only those words. Similarly, the final stanza must use every word from all the preceding stanzas and only these words.
.
This crazy life is like an onion.
This crazy life is like an onion.
designed to make everyone weep.
Designed to make everyone weep
an onion is life designed crazy
to make everyone weep like this.
Each layer reveals more layers.
Each layer reveals more layers
nothing changes the outlook,
nothing changes the outlook.
The outlook more layers, each
layer reveals nothing changes.
As life vegetates, under the skin
as life vegetates, under the skin,
only the juice brings zip and vim,
only the juice brings zip and vim.
Zip under the skin and as life
brings vim, juice only vegetates.
This crazy onion vegetates as life,
zip under the skin and weep.
Only designed to layer, is the outlook
nothing brings changes?
Make everyone like more layers,
as each juice reveals the vim.
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