triolet
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.
Origin of triolet
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How to use triolet in a sentence
This ingenious epistolary “novel” consists of the letters Shklovsky wrote triolet during his political exile in Berlin.
Shklovsky, a literary critic who co-founded the Russian Formalist movement, was hopelessly in love with the writer Elsa triolet.
A short poem, also called triolet, in which the first line or lines recur in the middle and at the end of the piece.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerIt would make a graceful, serio-comic triolet, he was thinking.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes | Israel ZangwillThat is the precise sentiment of those who seek "to discover the proper temper in which a triolet should be written."
Oscar Wilde | Arthur Ransome
The triolet consists (to quote Mr. Dobson) of eight lines with two rhymes.
The eight-lined rondel is thus, to all intents and purposes, a triolet, although labelled a rondel.
British Dictionary definitions for triolet
/ (ˈtriːəʊˌlɛt) /
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
Origin of triolet
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