triolet

/tree-uh-ley, trahy-uh-lit/US // ˌtri əˈleɪ, ˈtraɪ ə lɪt //UK // (ˈtriːəʊˌlɛt) //

三合一,三重奏,三联单,三角形

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a short poem of fixed form, having a rhyme scheme of ab, aa, abab, and having the first line repeated as the fourth and seventh lines, and the second line repeated as the eighth.

This ingenious epistolary “novel” consists of the letters Shklovsky wrote Triolet during his political exile in Berlin.
Shklovsky, a literary critic who co-founded the Russian Formalist movement, was hopelessly in love with the writer Elsa Triolet.
A short poem, also called triolet, in which the first line or lines recur in the middle and at the end of the piece.
It would make a graceful, serio-comic triolet, he was thinking.
That is the precise sentiment of those who seek "to discover the proper temper in which a triolet should be written."
The triolet consists (to quote Mr. Dobson) of eight lines with two rhymes.
The eight-lined rondel is thus, to all intents and purposes, a triolet, although labelled a rondel.