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triolet

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Definition of triolet

as in sonnet

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People can and should be skeptical about the sonnets written about starting NFL quarterbacks every offseason, when no one is getting sacked and almost everyone looks good.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 30 July 2026
The conventions ground the writing as meter and rhyme steady a sonnet.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 July 2026

Definition of sonnet

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Director Ivan Uryvskyi is candid about how the play recasts the ancient poem’s themes of return and those trapped in exile and captivity.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026
In another poem, Martial suggests that a writer seeking fame should copy his works on the toilet walls for all to read.

— Andrew Coletti, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2026

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Not unlike the rules of the villanelle, which are here applied with less than perfect rigor.

— New York Times, New York Times, 28 May 2026
From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, villanelle was simply the French term for an Italian country song, and during the Renaissance, poets often used the title for their work regardless of a poem’s specific structure.

— The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 19 Aug. 2025

Definition of villanelle

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By greatly expanding the dimensions of his images, with their muted palettes, tight cropping, found symmetries, and laconic wit, had the maestro of the photographic epigram betrayed his subtractive aesthetic?

— James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Johnson is the author of the epigrams, but Boswell is very much the co-author.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 27 May 2026

Definition of epigram

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In some ways, Birthright is an elegy to the Jewish experience in America—a place where Israel has been centered as our refuge and rightful homeland for the last 76-odd years.

— Hannah Seligson, Vanity Fair, 12 Aug. 2026
But that selflessness comes to feel like the point of this lingering, resonantly sad film — above all else, an elegy for lives unseen and unknown.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 23 July 2026

Definition of elegy

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The study picked 10 commercial large language models by top tech companies — including Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI — and asked the AI systems to make critical pamphlets, write limericks, give reasons if someone should join protests, and more.

— Didi Tang, Fortune, 16 July 2026
He was also known for his haikus and limericks, including some written to summarize ethics.

— Elliott Wenzler, Denver Post, 2 Apr. 2026

Definition of limerick

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Named after the famed New York nightclub, Danceteria is an ode to the experiences Marc and his late musical partner Dave Ball had in the city in the ’80s.

— Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 31 Aug. 2026
Then he was brought in to help design the Hilton Plaza’s nightclub and theater, initially named The Great Room, an ode to Gleason’s nickname.

— Vinod Sreeharsha, Miami Herald, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of ode

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Psalm 23 is numbered Psalm 22 in the Greek Septuagint and Latin Vulgate because of differences in how the psalms are divided and numbered.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026
But presiding over his daughter’s outdoor wedding helped, fulfilling another psalm’s promise.

— Peter Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

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