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Painful Paradelle

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Life is a battle, a war to be won,
Life is a battle, a war to be won,
And yet it is frivolous, joyful and fun,
And yet it is frivolous, joyful and fun,
Life is a battle and yet it is fun,
A frivolous, joyful war to be won.

Love is a gamble, a risk that you take,
Love is a gamble, a risk that you take,
It's also a life choice that each of us make,
It's also a life choice that each of us make,
A choice, a gamble, a risk that you take,
Love is a life that each of us make.

Pain is a constant that all of us feel,
Pain is a constant that all of us feel,
It brings us a depth, making us real,
It brings us a depth, making us real,
Pain is a depth that all of us feel,
It brings us a constant, making us real.

A frivolous gamble, a risk that you take,
Love is a depth, a choice that you make,
Pain brings a constant, making us real,
Life is a war that each of us feel,
And yet it is frivolous, joyful and fun,
It is also a battle that is to be won.
This is called a paradelle. It is feral and gross. It is pain, and yet I feel an achievement completing one again. Yeuck. Links explaining are below.

The paradelle is (in Collins' own note) "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. 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 those words." - from first website.

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A
A
B
B
Jumble of AB
Jumble of AB

C
C
D
D
Jumble of CD
Jumble of CD

E
E
F
F
Jumble of EF
Jumble of EF

Combine
All the words
Of all the other 3 stanzas
Together to
Make this last
Stanza

-Love you all,

Sammy
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