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	Paradelle - TheBestLinks.com - France, Villanelle, Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, Billy Collins, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A paradelle is a modern poetic form which was invented by United States Poet Laureate Billy Collins as a parody of the villanelle.
		Billy Collins claimed that the paradelle was invented in eleventh century France, but he actually invented it himself to parody strict forms, particularly the villanelle.
		His sample paradelle, "Paradelle for Susan" (c1997), was intentionally terrible, completing the final stanza with the line "Darken the mountain, time and find was my into it was with to to".
	www.thebestlinks.com /Paradelle.html (360 words)

	Choose a poem to see! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The "paradelle" was invented by poet Billy Collins as a way to poke fun at fixed forms.
		The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century.
		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.
	www.robinstewart.com /personal/writings/poetry/poems/paradelle.html (238 words)

	poeticvoices.com Mechanics of Poetry December 2003 - The Villanelle and Paradelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Conjecturally derived from the Italian Villanella, which was a rustic dance in 16th century Italy, and in itself derived from the Latin Villa, or farm, the Villanelle as a poem originated in France during the 16th century.
		The Paradelle, considered one of the more difficult of recent poetic forms, is mistakenly believed to have originated in eleventh century France, but in truth it was a parody of the Villanelle as created by Billy Collins.
		The one pure consistency of the Paradelle is that the syllables remain the same count of 6 throughout.
	www.poeticvoices.com /Mechanics/Mech0312.html (409 words)

	Paradelle: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A paradelle is a modern poetic form which was invented by United States Poet Laureate (The poet laureate consultant in poetry to the library of congress is appointed by the united states librarian...)
		Billy Collins claimed that the paradelle was invented in eleventh century France (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe)
		Not all reviewers of Collins' book recognized that the paradelle was a parody of formal poetry and of amateur poets who adhered to formalism at the expense of sense, Exception Handler: No article summary found.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /ref/paradelle (908 words)

	Tiki Tiki Tembo
		I had a talk with Ewilm about songs and the pentatonic scale, etc. It was funny, she was like "You made something up just like that," when I sang her a basic blues with a minor pentatonic scale.
		Anyway, she sent me a 'paradelle' which I knew nothing about, but sounded really cool, and I checked this out on the internet...
		The paradelle (in Collins' own words) is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the eleventh century.
	tikitikitembo.blogspot.com /2004/12/looking-for-different-ways-to-write.html (406 words)

	Free Poetry Community, Submit Your Poetry Free - The Road Of Life
		The paradelle is one of the more demanding French fixed forms, first appearing in the langue d'oc love poetry of the 11th century.
		It is a poem of 4 6-line stanzas in which the 1st and 2nd as well as the 3rd and 4th lines of the first 3 stanzas must be identical.
		Paradelle's certainly aren't my favourite form of poetry.
	www.paintedperfectly.com /article5805.html (608 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A paradelle is a difficult French poetic form first used in the eleventh century.
		This fixed form of poetry consists of four six-line stanzas with a repetitive pattern.
		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.
	eclecticmusing.250free.com /forms6.html (453 words)

	Welcome to Red Hen Press
		A few years ago, I wrote a poem that I titled “Paradelle for Susan.” It was the only paradelle ever to have been written because I invented the form in order to write the poem.
		The paradelle invites you in with its offer of nursery-rhyme repetition, then suddenly confronts you with an extreme verbal challenge.
		While the level of difficulty in most verse forms remains fairly consistent throughout, the paradelle accelerates from kindergarten to college and back to kindergarten several times and ends in a think-tank called the Institute for Advanced Word Play.
	www.redhen.org /bookDetail.asp?bookID=199 (369 words)

	[New-Poetry] correction to recipe for alt. paradelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On Monday, April 21, 2003 7:30 PM, David Graham spake thusly: > No doubt it > will soon be translated into French by someone or other, but it ain't > an old French form.
		Here's the French paradelle the student turned in.
		"Paradelle Pour Mon Chien": http://members.tripod.com/~purplebyrd/writing/french/paradelle.html I like the computer translation better than the real one which I saw too late.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /pipermail/new-poetry/2003-April/012170.html (125 words)

	Billy Collins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For instance, his poem "Sonnet" begins "All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now", and continues in this vein; the "sonnet" is fourteen lines, but does not rhyme and is not, until the final line, iambic pentameter.
		He invented the poetic form the paradelle as a hoax to parody the villanelle, using his mock "Paradelle for Susan"; the paradelle is emblematic of his rejection of formal poetry.
		In his work, Collins has also spoken out against obtuse constructions and over-interpretation of poems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Billy_Collins (729 words)

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		The above is a paradelle, a form of poetry created as a joke by Billy Collins in order to poke fun at unnecessarily complicated poetic forms like the pantoum, sestina and, eponymously, the villanelle.
		Of course, like all good joke-fads, the paradelle gained popularity among certain groups as a viable form, and there are some pretty awesome ones out there (for example).
		The form is described by Billy Collins himself: "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.
	kit27kit.livejournal.com /107086.html?mode=reply (410 words)

	July - Paradelle & Sestina - pipTalk Forums
		The pantoum and villanelle both repeat lines in a specific format, but not as intricately as does the paradelle.
		Then there's the rest - The paradelle is comprised of four stanzas.
		Are we supposed to write either a paradelle or a sestina...or...are we supposed to try to combine both into one poem?
	piptalk.com /pip/Forum22/HTML/000553.html (740 words)

	Bublos.com, Books ›› Picnic, Lightning (Pitt Poetry Series) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I would like to note however - the paradelle is NOT a real form of poetry from 11th century France.
		I have to laugh when I read "Paradelle for Susan," because even the poem sounds nervous.
		Apparently a Paradelle is not that easy to write and it might be a fun challenge to try to write your own poem in this "fixed form."
	www.bublos.com /isbn/0822956705.html (1616 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - The Paranelle?
		There are, alas, many poor souls who believe that the paradelle is a genuine medieval French form.
		I suspect, given the perversity with which Collins created the form, there probably cannot be any such thing as a good paradelle.
		I've found only one mention of it being a joke form, and that was as a "rant paranelle" to rebuke Billy Collins at Sonnet Central.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4844 (917 words)

	Library of Congress Information Bulletin - June 2003
		Collins, a professor of English for 30 years at Lehman College, City University of New York, also has broken records for selling poetry, and his penultimate book, “Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems”; (Random House, 2001), has sold more than 100,000 copies.
		Not bad for someone who started at 40 to publish “real books” of poetry, eschews poetry workshops, doesn’t rewrite, and invented a new form, the “paradelle,” to poke fun at the artifice of poetry, Collins pointed out to his audience.
		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.” Some in poetry circles took the bait, believing that Collins’; invention was an historical form.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0306/collins.html (839 words)

	Billy Collins: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		For instance, his poem "Sonnet" begins "All we need is fourteen lines, well, thirteen now", and continues in this vein; the "sonnet" is fourteen lines, but does not rhyme and is not, until the final line, iambic pentameter (iambic pentameter: more facts about this subject).
		He invented the poetic form the paradelle (paradelle: a paradelle is a modern poetic form which was invented by united states poet laureate...
		[follow hyperlink for more...]) as a hoax to parody the villanelle, using his mock "Paradelle for Susan"; the paradelle is emblematic of his rejection of formal poetry.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/billy_collins (883 words)

	High School
		Here is just one example of the many poems I wrote.
		It is a paradelle, which is a demanding French form of fixed poetry.
		In the first three six-line stanzas, the first and second lines as well as the third and fourth lines, must be identical.
	www.personal.psu.edu /students/b/h/bhg5001/high_school.htm (869 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2003007959 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tyranny of the Aerial Map ; the line I am a blasted tree is from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
		Abandoned Paradelle was inspired, in part, by Paul O. Zelinsky's retelling and illustrations of Rapunzel.
		Lines Reclaimed from Faith borrows the phrase for the birds that see him, for their feasts' delight from Antigone.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/ecip042/2003007959.html (231 words)

	Planet Zot Forums :: View topic - Poetry Contest! - 10,000 SD prize - Winner Announced!
		Your poem must be either a Sonnet, Paradelle, or Minute Poetry.
		As I've stated, your poem must be a Sonnet, Paradelle, or Minute Poetry.
		However, it has no rhyme scheme and cannot be considered a sonnet or minute poetry, and it isn't a paradelle, so I mst disqualify it.
	www.planetzot.com /forums/viewtopic.php?t=22313 (1466 words)

	Notes From a Hillside Farm
		If you came here looking for information on Billy Collin's "Paradelle for Susan" I should advise you that my comments below are, to put it simply, dead wrong.
		The "paradelle" is Collin's own invention, a kind of gentle satire on elaborate verse forms and facile technique.
		Exhibit number one is a piece called "Paradelle for Susan." The note at the end of the poem says that "The paradelle is one of the most demanding French fixed forms.
	glenrosefarm.blogspot.com /archives/2002_04_09_glenrosefarm_archive.html (717 words)

	FictionPress.Com Story : Such a Pity: a Paradelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A/N-- exploration of a form (the paradelle) thet I have recently discovered.
		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.
		The only real structure is that there must be 6 syllables in every line.
	www.fictionpress.com /read.php?storyid=1987339 (187 words)

	lection: what is this thing called love 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		And having read the book, I like Addonizio's engagement with popular culture; I think it's the center of her achievement here.
		There are several kinds of poem in What Is This Thing Called Love: many intense personal meditations and observations, a couple of intensely difficult formal experiments (a paradelle, a sonnenizio), and a few riffs on popular-culture themes; as I said, I think the third kind are by far the best.
		Addonizio writes a loose free verse, sometimes loosely rhymed, with an occasional pentameter line to grab your attention; she's fond of blues forms.
	www.uta.edu /english/tim/lection/040515a.html (205 words)

	Poetry Buffet - Feelings So True by Mindy Carpenter
		All Poems > Poetry Buffet > Reflection (a Paradelle)
		If you would like to use this poem on your own web page, please contact the Author.
		Power to those who make us who we are..this poem gives a gold medal to the people who matter.
	www.netpoets.com /poems/buffet/0542008.htm (484 words)

	pathetic.org :: Paradelle for Dad by Molly Miller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		When I was sick you shut the light.
		Leave me to shut the window, you to dark.
		Posted by H.M Stevens on 07/28/05 at 11:45 AM This is nice.
	www.pathetic.org /poem.php?i_poemid=1115112829 (152 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Rome
		Well, as I said this poem is experimental.
		Billy Collins wrote my favourite paradelle (Paradelle for Susan).
		My poem is not a paradelle but it uses the idea of putting words together.
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3660 (414 words)

	Bloglanta: Atlanta Paradelle from Metro Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Big props to Will Hindmarch who wrote what is likely the first paradelle about Atlanta.
		I imagine you soaking wet in a sundress with sweat.
		A Paradelle, by the way is a word puzzle inside a poem.
	www.bloglanta.com /archives/000091.html (290 words)

	Free Poetry Community, Submit Your Poetry Free - Dark Stalker and The Moon Goddess
		Dark and eery, but has a sense of triumph in it.
		You just showed me how well a paradelle can work.
		Re: Dark Stalker and The Moon Goddess by Tab on Thursday, March 02 @ 11:52:42 EST
	www.paintedperfectly.com /article5436.html (774 words)

	ToothyWiki: Paradelle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		I liked the "Two Years" example on that page.
		It would be much harder to do that in Latin, for example, because words have unique endings fixing them to one part of speech, conjugation and declension: to do the kind of paradelle I'm envisaging takes advantage of the ambiguity of English.
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	www.toothycat.net /wiki/wiki.pl?Paradelle (199 words)

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