triplets

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Wagner is never driving at anything of this sort any more than Shakespeare in his plays is driving at such ingenuities of verse-making as sonnets, triolets, and the like.

From The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring by Shaw, Bernard

“Then we’ll get married on triolets that will sell,” he asserted stoutly, putting his arm around her and drawing a very unresponsive sweetheart toward him.

From Martin Eden by London, Jack

For her, of buttercups and violets, A circlet for her hair he makes; And sings, in roundelays and triolets, A song that soon her fancy takes.

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by Smith, James Edgar

I fear," said Mr. Punch, "that at present they are too busy smiting the Socialistic big drum, or tickling their sonorous native tongue into tinkling triolets.

From Punch, or the London Charivari Volume 98, January 4, 1890 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

I myself, eating it three times a day, to the accompaniment of schweinersrippen and bonensalat, have composed triolets in the Norwegian language, a feat not matched by Björnstjerne Björnson himself.

From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.