triolet

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Noun
  • Almost too passionately anguished, Austen is a sonnet played on the fortepiano, while Winslet is Liszt banged out on a Steinway.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • The poem was published in Shakespeare’s 1609 quarto of 154 sonnets, which wasn’t widely popular in its day.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Like a poem, happiness is under no onus to mean something other than itself.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025
  • The truth is that Korby won Christine over with kindness and a Pablo Neruda poem.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 17 July 2025
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
Noun
  • Everyone has a right to define the artist in special terms, and to attempt an epigram that will make a reality out of a convenient term.
    John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025
  • It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.
    Jann E. Freed, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Vo’s ongoing examination of empire and identity unfolds here as both monument and elegy.
    Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
  • What if Durham’s vision for the sequel could be turned inside out, undergoing a transformation like The Greatest from retrospective to comeback, elegy to unfinished story.
    Melina Moe May 19, Literary Hub, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • They were trained to repeat dirty jokes and limericks about Ed Gein and Jeffrey Dahmer to customers.
    Rachel Hale, USA Today, 10 July 2025
  • Until then, feel free to send me your best limericks at mlunsford@tennessean.com.
    Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 15 Feb. 2024
Noun
  • The Eater line is a partnership between Heritage and the food site that launched last year, but six new pieces were added this year, including a mini sauté pan ($120) and a roomy six-quart rondeau pan ($180) that’s perfect for searing, pan roasting, and simmering.
    BYChris Morris, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau.
    Molly Allen, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • But the thing that distinguishes Dollywood is its odes to Dolly Parton.
    Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 28 July 2025
  • Some of Braddock’s eight grandchildren escorted his casket out of the church, as an ode to UM — the university’s fight song — played.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 27 July 2025
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“Triolet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/triolet. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.

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