Crossword clues for triolet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Triolet \Tri"o*let\ (tr[imac]"[-o]*l[e^]t), n. [F. triolet. See
Trio.]
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.
--Brande & C.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
verse form, from French triolet, a diminutive of trio (see trio).\n
Wiktionary
n. an eight-line poem, whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter
Wikipedia
A triolet ( or ) is a stanza poem of eight lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and often all lines are in iambic tetrameter: the first, fourth and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines, thereby making the initial and final couplets identical as well.
A triolet is a poetic form that is eight lines long.
Triolet may also refer to:
- Elsa Triolet (1896-1970), French writer
- Triolet, Mauritius a village in the north of Mauritius
- Aiguille de Triolet, a mountain in the Alps
Usage examples of "triolet".
Conflicting musical ideas tear across the page, from the page to the keys, and the keys to the earrising into free-fall, daring chromatics, turning triolet shorthand, leaning, crashing in exhilaration, creeping meekly across the keyboard, descending to earthy folk song, daring the dead stop of anguish.
The rhyme scheme, too, was a formidable one, with stanzas of seventeen lines that allowed of only three different rhymes, arranged in a pattern of five internal couplets split by a triolet and balanced by four seemingly unrhymed lines that actually were reaching into adjacent stanzas.
And so, through the three nights and days of Triolet while the people of the City smoked toalache in celebration of the end of the War of Assassins, he slept in his bed, getting up only to relieve himself or to eat a little food.
As Vic pulled open the door, I looked back one last time, over my shoulder, hoping to see Triolet in the doorway to the kitchen, but she was not there.
A gnawing, uncomfortable thought refused to leave him as he stared at the mouth and forehead of the chairman of the Magnetic Triolet club.
We have to print a triolet When space is clamouring for matter We try to put it off and yet We have to print a triolet It is with infinite regret That we admit the silly patter We have to print a triolet When space is clamouring for matter.
But Jon-Joras did not at that moment want to know what the triolet said.
Wagner is never driving at anything of this sort any more than Shakespeare in his plays is driving at such ingenuities of verse-making as sonnets, triolets, and the like.
Even his slight perfection in an age Of limping triolets and tame rondeaux.
He used to send his friends, in letters, little triolets and epigrams, generally in English, but sometimes in Greek.
Cecil and Belloc sat around the table editing it and sticking triolets thrown of in hot haste into those nasty little spaces left by articles that did not quite fit, or supplying three or four articles and a Ballade Urbane while the printers waited.
Conflicting musical ideas tear across the page, from the page to the keys, and the keys to the earrising into free-fall, daring chromatics, turning triolet shorthand, leaning, crashing in exhilaration, creeping meekly across the keyboard, descending to earthy folk song, daring the dead stop of anguish.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, tick, Tick, tick, tick, what little iambics, While Homer and Whitman roared in the pines?
Wagner is never driving at anything of this sort any more than Shakespeare in his plays is driving at such ingenuities of verse-making as sonnets, triolets, and the like.
Triolets, villanelles, rondels, rondeaus, Ballades by the score with the same old thought: The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished.