Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A poem or stanza of eight lines with a rhyme scheme abaaabab, in which the fourth and seventh lines are the same as the first, and the eighth line is the same as the second.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A poem in fixed form, borrowed from the French, and allied to the rondel and rondeau.
- noun In music, same as
triplet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun an eight-line
poem , whoserhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are iniambic tetrameter
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Except that it has only eight lines, the triolet is also difficult to describe but a nice example of one is aptly titled "Triolet" and written by the American newspaperman and humorist Don Marquis (1878 — 1937), and is taken from his book Dreams & Dust (1915).
“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008
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He confesses modestly, "I am a beauty merchant, a trader in song," as he waits for checks from the sonnet and triolet magazines to come in.
“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008
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Hardy is a great poet of the negative – consider his perfect triolet, “At a Hasty Wedding,” the whole of which is a contrary-to-fact condition.
Ochi Day : A.E. Stallings : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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For all you may want to know, and more, concerning this old poetic form, Google “triolet”.
dorothy terry | devil’s big take « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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Contact you dream? you listen? spoken word? a.e. stallings | triolet on a line apocryphally attributed to martin luther
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Although she declared the natural rhythms of speech and breath as her poetic credo, at the peak of her powers the Yiddish poet Malka Heifetz Tussman introduced into Yiddish one of the most rigid verse forms, the triolet, and mastered another, the sonnet corona.
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To win a personalized, autographed ADVANCE READING COPY, I want you to send me your favorite original sonnet, villanelle, sestina, limerick, or triolet about naturally LAST DRAGONS.
CONTEST TIME! 2007
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In the meantime, in honor of National Poetry Month, the triolet I wrote today:If magic ever dances in your words –
Hmm mariness 2007
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Argument must be presented in the form of a sonnet, sestina, or triolet… or some other kind of poem, I guess, if you want to make things easy on people.
The “Come Up With a Contest to Give Away a Copy of ‘Coffee Shop’” Contest! « Whatever 2007
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To win a personalized, autographed ADVANCE READING COPY, I want you to send me your favorite original sonnet, villanelle, sestina, limerick, or triolet about naturally LAST DRAGONS.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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