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Poem vs. Triolet — What's the Difference?

Poem vs. Triolet — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Poem and Triolet

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Poem

A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.

Triolet

A triolet (UK: , US: ) is almost always a stanza poem of eight lines, though stanzas with as few as seven lines and as many as nine or more have appeared in its history. Its rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB (capital letters represent lines repeated verbatim) and in 19th century English triolets often all lines are in iambic tetrameter, though in traditional French triolets from the 17th century on the second, sixth and eighth lines tend to be iambic trimeters followed by one amphibrachic foot each.

Poem

A composition in verse rather than in prose
Wrote both prose and poems.

Triolet

A poem or stanza of eight lines with a rhyme scheme abaaabab, in which the fourth and seventh lines are the same as the first, and the eighth line is the same as the second.

Poem

A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.
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Triolet

(poetry) An eight-line poem whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter.

Poem

A literary piece written in verse.

Triolet

A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.

Poem

A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.

Poem

A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

Poem

A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; - contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton.

Poem

A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian.

Poem

A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines

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