ENGL 345 Lecture Notes - Triolet

• School: McGill University
• Department: English (Arts)
• Course: ENGL 345
• Professor: Nathalie Cooke

Document Summary

A circular object or shape (not the definition of the poetry form, but the theme of a circular form is in the poem) A short poem of medieval origin related to the rondeau, there are typically 13 stanzas, but sometimes. Abba, abab, abbaa(b) < capitalized letters are the refrain. This means that the rondeau that we looked at for our group activity was a rondel. The meter is variable, but it is typically 8 syllables. It"s a fairly short poem, but there are a lot of repeated lines. Themes of love and life; evolved from the triolet. There"s a strict rhyme scheme and a refrain rule, but there is a little bit of flexibility.