Paradelle: One of the more demanding French fixed forms; a poem of four six-line stanzas in which the first and second lines, as well as the third and four lines of the first three stanzas, must be identical. The fifth and six 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 those words.
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By: Aesa Bast
Described as ignored, harmless, numb
Described as ignored, harmless, numb
Because I say so
Because I say so
I say described as harmless, numb
Because so ignored
The unclean spirit entered -
The unclean spirit entered -
Dark, disturbed, wicked
Dark, disturbed, wicked
The wicked spirit, dark, unclean
Entered disturbed
Erased the child
Erased the child
He said it didn't matter
He said it didn't matter
The child erased didn't matter
He it said
The child described as ignored, harmless
Erased because the wicked spirit entered
I say it so disturbed - he said, didn't matter
Numb
Dark
Unclean
