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a triolet
A chapter in the book Triolets: Traditional and Modified
I've Dimmed the Lights
by adewpearl
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I've dimmed the lights, the shades are drawn, but still I cannot summon sleep as restless nights stretch out to dawn, I've dimmed the lights, the shades are drawn, but nothing soothes when hope has gone to dwell in halls where shadows weep. I've dimmed the lights, the shades are drawn, but still I cannot summon sleep. |
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The triolet is a French repeating form that dates back to Medieval minstrels. It consists of just 8 lines with in iambic meter with a rhyme scheme of ABaAabAB. The capital letters denote repeated lines, so that line 1 is also lines 4 and 7, and line 2 is repeated as line 8.
For those scanning for meter, I am using the pronunciation for cannot, which accents "can." This is offered as the first pronunciation in both my Oxford Dictionary and the online dictionary I use most often.
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and 2 member cents. For those scanning for meter, I am using the pronunciation for cannot, which accents "can." This is offered as the first pronunciation in both my Oxford Dictionary and the online dictionary I use most often.
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