Baby Girl (Terzanelle - NaPoWriMo)

(This poem is in the form known as the terzanelle. A hybrid of the villanelle and terza rima, terzanelles consist of five three-line stanzas and a concluding quatrain. Lines and rhymes are chained throughout the poem, so that the middle line of each triplet is repeated as the last line of the following triplet (or, for the last triplet, in the concluding quatrain). The pattern goes like this:
ABA
bCB
cDC
dED
eFE
fAFA or fFAA.)

 

Baby Girl

 

Sweet little baby girl,

Messing up her bib-

Soft hair with a curl.

 

Tickling her rib,

Playing with Papa,

Messing up her bib.

 

Day long, she said ‘gogo-gaga’

Crawling around the house

Playing with Papa

 

Scaring the house mouse

Squealing like a bat

Crawling around the house

 

Slipping on the door mat,

Consoled by Mama,

Squealing like a bat.

 

Consoled by Mama,

Consoled by Papa,

Sweet little baby girl

She kept the house in whirl.

©ArchanaSarat2015