Word: triolet
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Skull," a piece of versified description, is rather crude, and "Perdita" is a triolet, utterly lacking in delicacy of turn and expression...
...verse of the number, "An awakening" is the best, although it lacks any great originality, and the first line naturally suggests the opening verse of one of Wordsworth's best known poems. "To Isabel" is more replete with words than with thought. "In Exile" is a pleasureable triolet...
...verse of the number is not very good. The triolet "My Secret" cannot be said to have much daintiness of expression, although one sees many triolets no better. The "Song," evidently suggested by Marguerite's Spinning Wheel Song in "Faust," is commonplace...