For Competition 3394 you were invited to submit a vernal triolet.
In 1894, the poet Banjo Paterson wrote a heartfelt triolet in dispraise of the triolet and Brian Allgar did the same this week:
I really hate the triolet,
And, Spring or not, I find them hell.
‘Oh, tra-la-la, it’s cold and wet.’
I really hate the triolet.
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