The prompt today was to write a triolet. A triolet is an eight-line poem. All the lines are in iambic tetrameter (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.
My book launch is today and I need to leave for it in an hour, but I hate to get on with my day without completing my NaPoWriMo poem. I dashed this one off in a few minutes to complete my obligation, but hope to get back to it and do another before midnight. If I drink even one margarita at the reception, however, that might not come about. So here is my “obligation” triolet that is, understandably, about trying to write a triolet while experiencing a time crunch:
“A Poem a Minute with a Triolet In it”
When first I tried to write this rhyme
I could not seem to make it scan.
In short, I felt less than sublime
when first I tried to write this rhyme;
but then I took the proper time
and proved the truth as other than:
“When first I tried to write this rhyme
I could not seem to make it scan.”
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
This is sweet as a violet, this charming little triolet! You are a darling with words, meter, scanners, etc. Ha. But you really are. How I admire you. This reminds me of a children’s Mother Goose rhyme.
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Hi Ann. You are a bit of a rhymer yourself, my dear. It’s fun having the challenges, although my rhymed poems are always just ditties. I really prefer unrhymed. Rhymes and meters are for fun. I just had a poem accepted for an anthology of works about violence against women. The poem is disturbing, but I’ll send it if you wish.
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