Practical Guide to English Versification / With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination / of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and / Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing

by Tom Hood

O'er the breast's superb abundance where a man might base his head."

—Browning, A Toccata.

The triplet pure and simple, is not a very common form; it is most frequently combined with other forms to make longer stanzas. At times the second line, instead of rhyming with the first or third, finds an echo in the next triplet—sometimes in the second, but more often in the first and third lines.

"Make me a face on the window there,

Waiting, as ever mute the while,

My love to pass below in the square.

And let me think that it may beguile

Dreary days, which the dead must spend

Down in their darkness under the aisle."

—Browning, The Statue and the Bust.