How to write a Tritina.

• three stanzas of tercets (3 lines)
• one envoy of one line
• Lines may be of any length.
• The first line of each tercet after the first ends with the same word as the one that ended the last line of the tercet before it.
• The pattern of end words and stanzas is
o ABC, CAB, BCA, then a closing line uses ABC in that order

xxx A
xxx B
xxx C

xxx C
xxx A
xxx B

xxx B
xxx C
xxx A

xx A xx B xx C

• The repeated words are unrhymed.

—-

You Say Love
by Michael Romani

I see it when I look at you
Hesitating in what I say
Could this really be love?

You have given your all for love
That's what you say, don't you?
That's what you say when you say...

Those things that your eyes say
You'd give your soul for real love
Wouldn't you, girl... wouldn't you?

You say love

(c) August 8, 2017 MIchael Romani
All Rights Reserve