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tri·o·let

 (trē′ə-lĭt, trī′-, trē′ə-lā′)
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.
[French, diminutive of trio, trio; see trio.]
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triolet

(ˈtriːəʊˌlɛt)
n
(Poetry) a verse form of eight lines, having the first line repeated as the fourth and seventh and the second line as the eighth, rhyming a b a a a b a b
[C17: from French: a little trio]
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tri•o•let

(ˌtri əˈleɪ, ˈtraɪ ə lɪt)

n.
a short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of ab, aa, abab, and having the first line repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line repeated as the eighth.
[1645–55; < French, Middle French, akin to trèfle trefoil, clover < Greek tríphyllon (see tri-, -phyll); see -et]
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I wrote, I wrote everything--ponderous essays, scientific and sociological short stories, humorous verse, verse of all sorts from triolets and sonnets to blank verse tragedy and elephantine epics in Spenserian stanzas.
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"Then we'll get married on triolets that will sell," he asserted stoutly, putting his arm around her and drawing a very unresponsive sweetheart toward him.
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.
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"It's about time I heard from those triolets", Walt said, after a silence of five minutes, during which they had swung steadily down the trail.
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Thomas Hardy's timing: poems and clocks in late nineteenth-century England
But when I signed up for Carol Rumens' poetry module in the final year of my undergrad degree at Queen's University Belfast, it was no longer a crush - the study of triolets, villanelles, and sestinas, as well as an introduction to a range of contemporary poets such as Sharon Olds, Galway Kinnell, Seamus Heaney and Mary Oliver gave me more and more reasons to love poetry.
AUTHOR'S NOTES; Carolyn Jess-Cooke describes writing her first poetry collection, published 12 years after she started writing it
The next section, "Triolets for Triolet," brings the poet to a more solemn tone.
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Thus, his seventh book of verse since 1974 features a sonnet whose title is the same as that of the collection, quatrains with alternating rhymes, couplets, triolets, a terza rima, plus sestets of various rhyme schemes and line lengths.
I ptosi tou iptamenou b'
The earliest triolets in English are those of a devotional nature composed in 1651 by Patrick Cary, a Benedictine monk at Douai, France.
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