Gallant pines (Triolet)

By grassy edge of gallant pines,

I breathe the effervescent spring.

Echoes of song swim in my mind

by grassy edge of gallant pines.

Remembering how doves did cry

and nourish me beneath their wings. . .

by grassy edge of gallant pines

I breathe, the effervescent spring.

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- Mr. Darcy
© 2019

The triolet is a short poem of eight lines with only two rhymes used throughout. The requirements of this fixed form are straightforward: the first line is repeated in the fourth and seventh lines; the second line is repeated in the final line; and only the first two end-words are used to complete the tight rhyme scheme. Thus, the poet writes only five original lines, giving the triolet a deceptively simple appearance: ABaAabAB, where capital letters indicate repeated lines.