triolet

noun

Definition of trioletnext
as in sonnet

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  1. sonnet
  2. poem
  3. villanelle
  4. epigram
  5. elegy
  6. limerick
  7. ode
  8. psalm
Noun
  • People who spend the day after a date writing sonnets in their Notes app.
    Olivia Petter, Vogue, 4 Nov. 2024
  • According to Open Source Shakespeare, a web page containing all of the bard’s plays, poems and sonnets, there are 884,421 words in the entire works of Shakespeare.
    David Hodari, NBC News, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of sonnet
Noun
  • The title that Moss has chosen for her memoir riffs on a poem that May Swenson published in 1978.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
  • That last work is a room-size installation that lists the names of 262 deceased men and women next to a neon sign that reads a dream, invoking a poem by Langston Hughes.
    Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of poem
Noun
  • Elongated and paved with bricks, the path is a closed form, a kind of physical villanelle that thwarts the experience of continuity or the feeling of finitude.
    Hamilton Cain, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Susan Kinsolving’s villanelle obsessively circles the same two rhymes, keeping pace with the anxiety of a mind trying to cope.
    Clare Bucknell, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
Definition of villanelle
Noun
  • On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.
    Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
  • No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.
    E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
Definition of epigram
Noun
  • Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
  • And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.
    Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
Definition of elegy
Noun
  • There’s a person writing beautiful custom poems that are sort of dirty limericks.
    Emily Leibert, Curbed, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Instead, what we’re served feels more like dirty limericks delivered at an excruciating pace by a bore with bad breath.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
Definition of limerick
Noun
  • The book, per its publisher, is an ode to the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
  • In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.
    James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of ode
Noun
  • According to Francisco, the composers represented no less than 30 print collections of solo songs, cantatas, motets, polyphonic works, settings for psalms and masses, a magnificat, a vespers service, a dozen sonatas, and scores for nine operas and other staged works.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Mar. 2024
  • A little less than half these psalms are attributed to King David, about a third are anonymous, and the rest are attributed to a variety of authors.
    Christine Rousselle, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2023
Definition of psalm
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