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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Author Notes
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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