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A poem or stanza of eight lines in which the first is repeated as the fourth and seventh and the second as the eighth and the rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB.

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  • The book also showed his skill in the use of French forms of verse, as in this dainty triolet:
  • The morning after he popped into the young man's study, to the lasting detriment of a triolet.
  • For all you may want to know, and more, concerning this old poetic form, Google “triolet”.
  • In the meantime, in honor of National Poetry Month, the triolet I wrote today:If magic ever dances in your words –
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