A Triolet

Portrait of Andrew Barton Paterson
Andrew Barton Paterson 1864–1941

Of all the sickly forms of verse, Commend me to the triolet. It makes bad writers somewhat worse: Of all the sickly forms of verse, That fall beneath a reader's curse, It is the feeblest jingle yet. Of all the sickly forms of verse, Commend me to the triolet.

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