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 | | -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) triolet (TREE-uh-lit, -lay) noun A poem or stanza of eight lines, having a rhyme scheme ABaAabAB, in which the first, fourth, and seventh lines are the same, and second is the same as the eighth line. |
 | | The Canary Islands got their name from dogs, a light-year is a unit of distance, and a triolet is a poem of, well, eight lines. |
 | | Triolets are so called because the key line in the poem appears thrice. |
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