A French Villanelle - translated, comic poem 343 by Angela Lansbury

 French poetry forms include the 12 line dizain, the complicated long sestina, the simple rondel and the musical 19 line villanelle.

The first verse is just 3 lines. The first and last rhymes rhyme. 

The middle line rhymes with lines in  later verses.

A villanelle  has 19 lines. But line one is repeated at lines 6, 12 and 18. Line 3 is repeated as lines 9 and 15 and 19.

 It can be humorous or ironic, or tragic, or spooky. 

Today I composed one in French.

Cuisine Français

1 Moi, j'aime bien un rendez-vous  

2 Ou on essaye cuisine Français

3 Bien sur, pour moi, et toujours tu

4 Et tout le monde peut envier nous

5 Pour changer on mange Anglais

6  Moi, j'aime bien un rendez-vous

7 Les choses bien cuit, and jamais cru

8 Peut-etre on parle Franglais

9  Bien sur, pour moi, et toujours tu

10  Recettes ancient, quelques fois neu

11 Pres de la mer, vue de la baie

12  Moi, j'aime bien un rendez-vous

13 Un vin blanc et un vin doux

14 Sur on pont ou sur un quay

15  Bien sur, ce'est moi, et toujours tu

16 Moi, j'aime bien un rendez-vous

17 En Mars, Avril, encore en Mai

18  Moi, j'aime bien un rendez-vous

19  Bien sur, ce'est moi, et toujours tu

I typed out numbers 1 to 19. I composed my first line and copied it to the lines 6, 12 and 18. 

I made a rhyme for line 3, and copied it to 9, 15 and 19. 

If you cannot find a cedilla (the teil under the letter c) copy the word Francais from Wikipedia, change the font (the A symbol far left top of your Blogspot screen) to Times new Roman, or your font, which you can identify by clicking on another word. failing all else, change all the fonts in your blog post to the same font so that the new word matches the font used for the other words.

Glossary

Avril - April

bien - well (adverb)

blanc - white

changer - to change

cru - raw/uncooked food

cuisine - cookery/style or nationality of cookery

doux - soft or sweet wine

French - English

j'aime - I like

Mai - May

Mars - March

mer - sea

moi - me

rendez-vous - meeting (literally render yourself  - there/at a place)

toujours - always (literally all days)

tu (you (second person singular)

un - a/one

vin - wine

English - French

always - toujours

(to) change - changer

one - un (number one) on (impersonal one person)

April - Avril

March - Mars

May - mai

me - moi

sea - sea

sweet (wine) - doux

uncooked food - cru

you - tu / vous

well - bien

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