Prompt for Day 4 by Maureen:

Today, let’s try writing triolets. A triolet is 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.

Here’s my triolet following above rules:

Poem: Full Moon

Like a solitaire shines the moon
They say today’s a full moon night
“Where’s my share of light?” I ask soon
Like a solitaire shines the moon
Will night ever stop breeding gloom?
I ask the moon and stars, I write
Like a solitaire shines the moon,
they say. Today’s a full moon night

©Vandana Bhasin

04.04.2023