Comments on: RWP#49: Hobbyhorse, hobbyhorse (A Paradelle)

By: tom

tom — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:10:56 +0000

The Paradelle isn’t a form I particularly care for. Collins’ “Paradelle for Susan” is, I think, quite good, but real quality in it is… challenging. And, of course, the whole thing was a joke to begin with.
Kind of like “echolalia” that way/ I mean, sure, we’re probably all liberal poet-bloggers who want to be nice and all that jazz, but if somebody was echolalaic, wouldn’t you laugh? You’d try not to, and you’d feel bad later. So….
Part of it is the word. It’s hard to take greek seriously: it sounds like toddlers babbling. Call it a syndrome if you want it taken seriously. Give it acronymic letters.
But writing a good paradelle is a very difficult task because not just the lines need to stand up to repetition, but the words. And reshuffling the words adds a level of complexity that reinforces Collins point when creating the paradelle- sometimes the rules are dumb.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:56:43 +0000

That's so funny -- I was going to use the Random Word Generator for this prompt, although not the paradelle, I've never heard of that one. This poem is a blast. Nathan´s last blog post: Negatives

By: Annamari

Annamari — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:05:34 +0000

it is a great effect, not only because of the full line repetitions but also alliteration and he double consonants that I like the most.

By: gautami tripathy

gautami tripathy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:37:27 +0000

Writing a paradelle is no cakewalk. You did very well with it!

http://firmlyrooted.blogspot.com/2008/10/echoes-reverbate-half-poem.html

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By: Lisa G.

Lisa G. — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:05:13 +0000

I'd never heard of the paradelle and followed your wikipedia link - hilarious! I love it! Definitely appropriate. :) Lisa G.´s last blog post: Echolalia

By: Sweet Talking Guy..

Sweet Talking Guy.. — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:29:33 +0000

I don't like the form, however, I feel you made good use of the echolalia prompt with the repeating, echoing nature of this paradelle. Sweet Talking Guy..´s last blog post: TOP prompt "Justice/injustice"