Form Challenge, Triolets: Gaze Intent on Blaze Orange Fire - Arwa al Jinniyya & Thomas Bordeaux
Channel: Cerian Cantwr
Date: 17/01/2018

Form Challenge, Triolets: Gaze Intent on Blaze Orange Fire - Arwa al Jinniyya & Thomas Bordeaux
Recorded at Bardic Madness 2017 in the Barony of Rivenstar.

Form Challenge, Triolets:
The triolet is a period French verse form dating back to the thirteenth century. It consists of an eight line stanza with 2 repeated lines (the rhyme scheme is shown below), and can be used singly or as part of a cycle. Try your hand at writing one.
8 lines, 8 syllables Lines 1 & 4 & 7, and 2 & 8 are the same.  ABAA|ABAB Rhyme Scheme

a – line 1                         When first we met, we did not guess
b – line 2                         That Love would prove so hard a master;
a – rhymes with line 1   Of more than common friendliness
A – identical to line 1     When first we met, we did not guess
a – rhymes with line 1   Who could foretell the sore distress,
b – rhymes with line 2    The inevitable disaster,
A – identical to line 1     When first we met, we did not guess
B – identical to line 2     That Love would prove so hard a master;

                                          - Robert Bridges – late 19th c