What do I aspire to be?
A bilingual queen. So follow me.
In French it is reine bilingue, prounounced wren bee langer.
I started this when trying to write a bilingual poem, which is more complicated.
One problem with translation, is that in other languages the adjective comes after the noun. French moulin rouge, is red windmill.
In London there's the moulin rouge
In Belgium I go to Bruges
German is even more complicated. they often put the verb at the end. You are better off taking a German poem and trying the same trick of finding words which have the same rhymes at the end. Naturally, start with a simple poem.
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Begin with the end in mind. For the first time I have made a physical framework for a poem. I started it in my head, with the rhymes. Then I wrote down the two magic essential words in alternating lines. Why stop there?
The simplest rhyme is a couplet. A sonnet has three four line verses, ending with a couplet.
I first thought of the scheme of a villanelle, which has sets of three lines, ending with a couple. ending iwth alternating rhymes, ending with a couplet, I can write a whole poem scheme with the word, or at least the rhyme choices, at the end of each line.
I could add a chart with columns and lines and the rhyming scheme, a and b, or starter rhymes, written in. You could take a traditional out of copyright song and remove all the words which don't rhyme, then either write a totally new poem with the original rhymes, or write in different rhymes, or all the words which rhyme.
Let's take Twinkle twinkle little star as an example.
.. .. .. star
.. .. .. are
, ,, , ,, high
.. .. .. sky.
Firstly, you could reverse the rhymes
are
star
sky
high
Or you could choose another set or words with the same rhymes
... car
... far
...why
... high
Or list all the possible rhymes ending with the same letters
bar, car, far, tar,
bar, car, far, tar,
buy, bye, die, fly, guy, high, lie, my, nigh, pie, rye, sight, tie (verb), tie (noun), vie, why
buy, bye, die, fly, guy, high, lie, my, nigh, pie, rye, sight, tie (verb), tie (noun), vie, why
In French children often start with Frere Jacques.
Here it is on Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI0abuwq31g
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Books by Angela Lansbury, author, include:
Poetry Workshop workbook, first published 2008
Writing Poetry For Fun, first published 2008, republished in 2011
Animal Poems 2012
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We saw a Dinosaur, published in 2013
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