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triolet

An eight-lined poem, with repetition of the first line as the fourth and seventh, and of the second line as the eighth; and with first, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh lines, and second, sixth, and eighth lines, rhyming. The form was developed in medieval French poetry, and was revived on a small scale in 19th-century English poetry.



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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.
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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