#napowrim2023 #day04 #dastardlyvile

 

#napowrim2023
#day04
#dastardlyvile
#triolet
#dodgepoetryprogram

Dastardly, vile

Fearfully repeating itself

This dastardly, vile triolet.

Wish it was left upon the shelf,

Fearfully repeating itself

Like automatic pilot,

a melancholic Christmas elf

Fearfully repeating itself

This dastardly, vile triolet.

Today’s challenge the dastardly triolet, an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetramenter (for a total of eight syllables per line), and the first, fourth, and seventh lines are identical, as are the second and final lines. This means that the poem begins and ends with the same couplet. Beyond this, there is a tight rhyme scheme (helped along by the repetition of lines) — ABaAabAB.