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.

A poem in fixed form, borrowed from the French, and allied to the rondel and rondeau.

In music, same as triplet.

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.

an eight-line poem, whose rhyme scheme is ABaAabAB and whose lines are in iambic tetrameter