triolet

• 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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