The family of little feet
The family of little feet smiled morein times gone past.
If truth be told they now were sore.
The family of little feet smiled more
when mother cried at bolted door.
Private fears, now public tears at last.
The family of little feet smiled more
in times gone past.
Triolet
ReplyDeleteA French Form
This must be the simplest of the French forms, and therefore makes a good introduction to formal poetry. It uses only two rhymes in its eight lines, and does not have a fixed metre. The first two lines are used again as the last two lines and the first line also re-appears as the fourth. Showing the repeated lines in capitals, the rhyme scheme used in ABaAabAB.