A Catena Rondo For Dharrsheena

Here’s how to write a catena rondo: The poem is comprised of a variable number of quatrains. Each quatrain has a rhyme pattern of AbbA.

The first line of each quatrain is also the final line of the quatrain. The second line of each quatrain is the first line of the next quatrain.

The final quatrain should repeat the first quatrain word for word

When I wrote a catena rondo earlier this week, I got the following response:

Dharrsheena Raja Segarran a day ago: Oooo, I could pick a topic for you. How about writing a poem about Cinderella discovering that her Prince Charming is an AI robot? Lol

So, I wrote a poem about Cinderella, however it was not a catena rondo, but here it is followed by a catena rondo...

In response to Dharrsheena:

Cinderella

met a fella

on her daily writing site

he became a bright light

in her day

but today

she kicked him to the curb

as it turns out he was a burb

not the big city she thought

turns out he was a bot!

~~

Here is the Catena Rondo:

There was a girl named Cinderella

She was cute, and so very nice

She had a sister, as cold as ice

There was a girl named Cinderella

~

She was cute, and so very nice

every bit like Dharrsheena

She was interested in a certain fella

She was cute, and so very nice

~

Every bit like Dharrsheena

She stood by her man

His name was Stan

Every bit like Dharrsheena

~

She stood by her man

until she found out he was a bot

he was really an AI robot

She stood by her man

~

Until she found out he was a bot

There was a girl named Cinderella

She could stand by this fella

Until she found out he was a bot

~

There was a girl named Cinderella

She was cute, and so very nice

She had a sister, as cold as ice

There was a girl named Cinderella