Triolet
Love, awake! Ah, let thine eyesOpen, clouded with thy dreams.Now the shy sweet rosy skies,Love, awake. Ah, let thine eyesDawn before the last star dies.O'er thy breast the rose-light gleams:Love, awake! Ah, let thine eyesOpen, clouded with thy dreams.
About this text
Triolet is in the public domain. This text is taken from Collected Poems: Volume One, Project Gutenberg ebook #30501; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Alfred Noyes, Triolet, in Collected Poems, Volume One (1913), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #30501, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/noyes-collected/triolet.html, id L21394.
Form and metre
Triolet is 8 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABAAABAB. The metre is trochaic tetrameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 92%).
See other poems in trochaic tetrameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABAAABAB eyesA · dreamsB · skiesA · eyesA · diesA · gleamsB · eyesA · dreamsB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against trochaic tetrameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Love, awake! Ah, let thine eyes | 7 | ·˘/···· |
| Open, clouded with thy dreams. | 7 | /˘/˘··· |
| Now the shy sweet rosy skies, | 7 | ····/˘· |
| Love, awake. Ah, let thine eyes | 7 | ·˘/···· |
| Dawn before the last star dies. | 7 | ······· |
| O'er thy breast the rose-light gleams: | 7 | ······· |
| Love, awake! Ah, let thine eyes | 7 | ·˘/···· |
| Open, clouded with thy dreams. | 7 | /˘/˘··· |
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