Happy Birthday Jenny (Kyrielle Sonnet)

Happy birthday to you Jenny Hope your big day brings you plenty Keep a bright smile all the way Your mom sings your praises today Soon you will be driving to school Don’t forget to follow the rules Enjoy your day with a buffet Your mom sings your praises today Happy birthday to you Jenny Don’t forget to save your pennies Wish on a star on your great day Your mom sings your praises today Happy birthday to you Jenny Your mom sings your praises today © Joseph, 8/20/2007 © All Rights Reserved This is for the the daughter of our own poetess, Kathy. The Kyrielle Sonnet is a French form from the Middle Ages. It has 14 lines (three rhyming quatrains and a non-rhyming couplet). It has a repeating line or phrase as a refrain in the last line of each stanza. Each line within the Kyrielle Sonnet has eight syllables. There are times when a French poem links back to the poem’s beginning; therefore, a common practice is to combine the first line of the first quatrain and the refrain in each quatrain as the ending couplet for the poem.