triolet

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Austin Dobson, Henley, and Swinburne have written successfully in this form The triolet is a sort of abbreviation of the second variety of rondeau.

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  1. 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.

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  • Marilyn Singer's In the Museum, a triolet, makes me so happy. —  GottaBook
  • Austin Dobson, Henley, and Swinburne have written successfully in this form The triolet is a sort of abbreviation of the second variety of rondeau. —  The Principles of English Versification
  • A virelay or a triolet Elise was a little uncertain as to what these were, exactly, but she resolved to look them up as soon as she reached home. —  Patty's Success
  • Or one might make the words the Backbone of a triolet, only one would have to split them up to fit it into the metre; or one might make it the decisive line in a sonnet; or one might make a pretty little lyric of it, to the tune of 'Madame la Marquise 'Huit francs et dix centimes, Tra la la, la la la.' —  The Path to Rome
  • Just to show you, I wrote half a dozen jokes last night for the comic weeklies; and just as I was going to bed, the thought struck me to try my hand at a triolet--a humorous one; and inside an hour I had written four. —  Martin Eden
 

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  1. French, diminutive of trio, trio; see trio.

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  1. from French triolet, a triolet, Old French triolet, a triolet, also trefoil, from Italian trio, three: see trio.
 

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/ˈtriəlɛt/
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