POETRY: the Triolet
The Triolet:
- 8 lines, two rhymes
- Lines 1 and 2 are repeated verbatim on lines 7 and 8
- Line 1 is repeated verbatim on line 4
VARIATIONS:
- Variations of 7 and 9 lines have been written
- 19th Century English triolets: all lines in iambic tetrameter (usually)
- 17th Century French triolets: lines 2, 6, and 8 tend to be iambic trimester followed by an amphibrachic foot
Associated Forms:
Worksheet:
TRIOLET:
A
B
a
A
a
b
A
B
A
a
b
A
B
EXAMPLE:
- Farewell all earthly joys and care
- Worldly designs, fears, hopes, farewell!
- Farewell all earthly joys and cares!
- On nobler thoughts my sould shall dwell,
- Worldly designs, fears, hopes, farewell!
- At quiet, in my peacefull cell,
- I'll think on God, free from your snares;
- Worldly designs, fears, hopes, farewell!
- Farewell all earthly joys and cares.
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