Triolet 1
What do you think this is ? A game?
eight line metrical rhyming verse
with repeats, a triolet is its name.
What do you think this is? A game?
It’s fun to write one all the same –
to fun I’m not at all averse.
It really is some kind of game,
to write in metrical rhyming verse.
Triolet 2
A woman’s place is in the wrong,
to stroke the ego of her man.
Despite the fact that she is strong
a woman’s place is in the wrong.
To keep the peace – her canny plan –
she has to jolly him along,
pretend that she is in the wrong –
to soothe the ego of her man.
Napowrimo day 23 prompt
I’m always soothing Len’s ego. His very presence soothes me, it only seems fair. 😉
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Viv, always impressed with your forms, but the second was particularly insightful. I’m glad that is not the case with Lex and me, but I certainly can attest to the fact that it made my parents’ marriage easier… on my mom! Loved the phrase, “Jolly him along,” so very British. Peace, Amy
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You missed an ‘is’ on L4.
The truth inherent in the second one is rather sad.
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Thanks, Tilly – corrected.
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Triolets 1 & 2 make a clever poet of you…
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You nailed it 🙂
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