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  2. Tercet - Wikipedia

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    The tercet also forms part of the villanelle, where the initial five stanzas are tercets, followed by a concluding quatrain. [5] [6] [7] A tercet may also form the separate halves of the ending sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet, where the rhyme scheme is ABBAABBACDCCDC, as in Longfellow's "Cross of Snow". For example, while "Cross of Snow" is ...

  3. Terza rima - Wikipedia

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    Terza rima (/ ˌ t ɛər t s ə ˈ r iː m ə /, also US: / ˌ t ɜːr-/, [1] [2] [3] Italian: [ˈtɛrtsa ˈriːma]; lit. ' third rhyme ') is a rhyming verse form, in which the poem, or each poem-section, consists of tercets (three-line stanzas) with an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: The last word of the second line in one tercet provides the rhyme for the first and third lines in the ...

  4. Triadic-line poetry - Wikipedia

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    Triadic-line poetry or stepped line is a long line which "unfolds into three descending and indented parts". [1] Created by William Carlos Williams, it was his "solution to the problem of modern verse" [2] and later was also taken up by poets Charles Tomlinson and Thom Gunn.

  5. Petrarch's and Shakespeare's sonnets - Wikipedia

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    The repeated rhyme scheme within the octave strengthens the idea. The sestet, with either two or three different rhymes, uses its first tercet to reflect on the theme and the last to conclude. William Shakespeare utilized the sonnet in love poetry of his own, employing the sonnet structure conventionalized by English poets Wyatt and Surrey.

  6. Villanelle - Wikipedia

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    A classic pastoral scene, depicting a shepherd with his livestock; a pastoral subject was the initial distinguishing feature of the villanelle. Painting by Ferdinand Chaigneau [], 19th century.

  7. Glossary of poetry terms - Wikipedia

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    Examples: "Barbara Allen" and "John Henry" Literary ballad: poems adapting the conventions of folk ballads, beginning in the Renaissance. Examples: “La Belle Dame sans Merci” by John Keats and “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. Epic (or epos): an extended narrative poem, typically expressing heroic themes.

  8. Outline of poetry - Wikipedia

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    There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet repeated alternately until the last stanza, which includes both repeated lines. The villanelle is an example of a fixed versed form. Tanka – a classical Japanese poem, composed in Japanese (rather than Chinese, as with kanshi)

  9. Literature review - Wikipedia

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    A literature review is an overview of previously published works on a particular topic. The term can refer to a full scholarly paper or a section of a scholarly work such as books or articles. Either way, a literature review provides the researcher /author and the audiences with general information of an existing knowledge of a particular topic.