In Competition No. 3241, you were invited to submit a spring triolet.
Banjo Paterson, the bard of the bush, had this to say about the triolet in 1894:
Of all the sickly forms of verse,
Commend me to the triolet.
It makes bad writers somewhat worse:
Of all the sickly forms of verse…
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