Word: triolet
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None of the verse of the number appears to be of great excellence, although the triolet "Life Hopes" seems to be the best of the three. "Polly" is a dainty poetical trifle, well conceived, though wanting the delicate lightness of touch which the best verse of that style has. A "Villanelle of Change" is correct in form...
...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...
...essays of a generation ago. In the place of interminable epics and other tedius poems descriptive and hortatory, we have a setting, mercifully a narrow one, of verses expressing the mystic yearnings and sorrows to which the tragic undergraduate heart is prone, about a profusion of gems of the triolet and rondeau order, in fact every sort of "bright conceit in meter," if the Record will pardon our plagiarism. Whether all this is real progress or only growing frivolity is out of our line of enquiry. It is an interesting fact that in many respects our southern exchanges...