Triolet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. an eight-line poem, whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A poem in fixed form, borrowed from the French, and allied to the rondel and rondeau.
  • n. In music, same as triplet.
  • Word Usage
    "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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