triolet

A triolet is an eight-line poem (or stanza) with a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB: The first line is repeated in the fourth and seventh lines and the second line is also the last line (the capital letters indicate repeating lines). It's similar to a rondeau, another French poetic form of repeated lines.

Triolets are innumerable in French literature and are frequently used in newspapers to give a point and brightness to a brief stroke of satire. The earliest triolets in English are those of a devotional nature composed in 1651 by Patrick Cary, a Benedictine monk, at Douai, France.

History. The triolet is a close cousin of the rondeau, the rondel, and the rondelet, other French verse forms emphasizing repetition and rhyme. The form stems from medieval French poetry and seems to have had its origin in Picardy. The earliest written examples are from the late 13th century.

: a poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh and the second line as the eighth with a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB.

Rules of the Triolet Form The requirements of this fixed form are straightforward: the first line is repeated in the fourth and seventh lines; the second line is repeated in the final line; and only the first two end-words are used to complete the tight rhyme scheme.

How to use triolet in a sentence. He will write no more ballades, and rondeaux, and triolets; eh, Madame? In 1649 Gérard de Saint Amant wrote a volume of sixty-four triolets.

Rules of the Triolet Form The requirements of this fixed form are straightforward: the first line is repeated in the fourth and seventh lines; the second line is repeated in the final line; and only the first two end-words are used to complete the tight rhyme scheme.

It's helpful to count aloud when we're learning a new piece, or figuring out a rhythm. To count triplets, we can use either of two common counting methods: Tri-p-let, Tri-p-let. One-trip-let, Two-trip-let.

Patrick Carey History of the Triolet Form The earliest triolets were devotionals written by Patrick Carey, a seventeenth-century Benedictine monk. British poet Robert Bridges reintroduced the triolet to the English language, where it enjoyed a brief popularity among late-nineteenth-century British poets.

In Triolet, score as many points as possible each turn by placing one, two, or three tiles in the same line. But pay attention! Your tiles can't add up to more than 15.

'Triolet' by Robert Bridges is a short love poem that takes a specific poetic form. It acknowledges that love is a painful experience and personifies the force as a “hard master.”

Love, love, what wilt thou with this heart of mine? Naught see I fixed or sure in thee! I do not know thee,–nor what deeds are thine: Love, love, what will though with this heart of mine?