When he knows that—he—can,
Or ought to know it—
To kiss a fan!
What a poky poet!”
Harrison Robertson.
Yet another American one, by H. C. Bumer, may be quoted to show a subject not at first sight so suitable to the triolet form.
“A pitcher of mignonette,
In a tenement’s highest casement;
Queer sort of a flowerpot, yet
That pitcher of mignonette