Thy Gift of Love (Triolet)

by Wallace   May 22, 2007


My heart misused and lost thy trust
For thou has stole thy gift of love
Taken and destroyed by one's lust
My heart misused and lost thy trust
A lover's passion stained with rust
Swept away like a flock of doves
My heart misused and lost thy trust
For thou has stole thy gift of love

A Triolet is a poetic form consisting of only 8 lines. Within a Triolet, the 1st, 4th, and 7th lines repeat, and the 2nd and 8th lines do as well. The rhyme scheme is simple: ABaAabAB, capital letters representing the repeated lines.
Each line 8 syllables in length (4 metrical feet),
Written in iambic tetrameter (the more common way), or in pentameter (English version) where each line only has 10 syllables (5 metrical feet).

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  • 17 years ago

    by Choose xX Alex Xx Life

    Short but sweet a really cool poem, language was fantastic xxx alex xxx

  • 17 years ago

    by Karl Wild GG23

    I love the old school style you have mixed with a little bit of new school it's makes for a very interesting read. Fantastic job as always 5/5 GG23

  • 17 years ago

    by Jenni Marie

    OH.

    I frigging loved this.
    This is my favourite style of formed poetry, and you mastered it beautifully here.

    Despite the Triolet structure being relatively short, you managed to display such depth and emotion in this piece and I found the flow to be good throughout the piece.

    This was wonderfully written, and the fact that it was a triolet was an added bonus for me.

  • 17 years ago

    by Robert

    This was a good poem not your best but you did well on the stanza good job keep up the good work Plot121

  • 17 years ago

    by Nix

    I really like this poem, form of it is excellent. It is short but still very powerful, you created interesting atmosphere with just a few words.

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