Let me repeat it o’er and o’er!—

I do not like the Villanelle,

This tinkle of a Muffin-bell!

THE TRIOLET.

(In a Temper.)

A triolet’s scarcely the thing—

Unless you would carol in fetters!

If lark-like you freely would sing,

A Triolet’s scarcely the thing:

I miss the poetical ring,