Tonight, young girl lost a tooth, but it found
safety under her pillow; now it's bound
for a new home 'neath trees of sweet cherry.
Listen...distress call came for Tooth Fairy,
who "quick-as-a-wink" summoned Flying Hound.
Quiet! Her silvery wings made no sound
as she picked up the tooth ~ looked far around ~
traded in for a fiddle of cherry.
~~ Tonight, young girl's spellbound.
Flying Hound saw her home. Breezing through town
at top speed; she took stock ~ instantly found
summer months would wear down our Tooth Fairy.
That season is when mothers are wary...
children take chances down at the fairground.
~~ Tonight, young girl's spellbound.
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Author Notes
A Rondeau is a French form, 15 lines long, consisting of three stanzas: a quintet, a quatrain and a sestet with a rhyme scheme as follows:
aabba, aabR, aabbaR
Lines 9 and 15 are short, a refrain (R) consisting of a phrase taken from line one.
The other lines are longer.
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