GONE (Triolet)

I lost the love that I had found

I held him tight yet now he’s gone

The sad memories should be buried to the ground

I lost the love that I had found

The love we had I thought was bound

Thinking and wondering what wrong I had done

I lost the love that I had found

I held him tight yet now he’s gone.

                        -TRIOLET-

The word triolet is pretty, like flower, resembling the word violet in looks, but pronounced “TREE-o-LAY”. The “tri” (meaning “three”) refers to the fact that the opening line occurs three times in this form.

The triolet is an eight-line poem with two rhymes and two repeating lines. The first line is repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second and eighth lines are the same.

It would look like this:

A¹

B²

A

A¹

A

B

A¹

B²

Two rhymes designated as A and B respectively

A¹ stands for the first repeated line and B² for the second repeated line.

Source of definition:

ENGLISH 133 POETRY Compilation