Call you then mere bric-a-brac Triolet and rondel?
Call you then mere bric-a-brac Triolet and rondel?
A triolet to a ton of coal would be a glorious thing now, wouldn't it?
Originally, the trioletwas often used for serious sentiment.
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.
While strongly resembling the triolet and the early rondel, it yet seems worth noting as a pretty variety for trifling subjects.
The weak point of the Triolet being the monotony of its refrain, every attempt, at giving a new accent to the words, short of actual punning, is welcomed as a relief.
That the ideally perfect triolet is as yet unwritten, or at least represented by very few, it may be urged; but if that be true, it should only provoke more attempts, one would fancy.
Nevertheless, the subtle art needed to acquire the ease that is the charm of a good triolet is generally the result of infinite care.
The triolet consists (to quote Mr. Dobson) of eight lines with two rhymes.
In old examples the trioletwas devoted to grave verse, but, as M.
It may be possible to go directly from the head of the Glacier deTriolet to its right bank, and, if so, at least thirty minutes might be saved.
The passage of the Col de Triolet from the Couvercle to Pre du Bar occupied 81/2 hours of actual walking.
Comparison of the Col de Triolet with the Col de Talefre will show what a great difference in ease there may be between tracks which are nearly identical.
The ballade, rondeau and triolet are favorite expressions of this style of verse, for in general its writers seek difficult stanza forms with rhymes natural but never hackneyed.
When varied the triolet may give exactly the right ring for some idea which refuses to fit itself into the conventional molds.
The triolet seems simple enough, and, for that matter, a certain kind of triolet can be written by the ream.
The well-written triolet is also sure of a hearing for this same reason.
Though intended for the delicately humorous the triolet is sober-going enough to carry a thread of sentiment.
That is the precise sentiment of those who seek "to discover the proper temper in which a triolet should be written.
