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A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem. [1] Examples of tercet forms
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 ...
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.
Tercet (or triplet): a unit of three lines, rhymed (AAA) or unrhymed, often repeating like the couplet. Triolet : an 8-line stanza with only two rhymes, repeating the 1st line as the 4th and 7th lines, and the 2nd line as the 8th (ABaAabAB, capital letters indicating lines repeated verbatim).
A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.
The poem is written in the villanelle or villanesque form of poetry, which contains nineteen lines. These lines consist of five tercets and a quatrain at the end. Two lines of the opening tercet, the first and the third, are known as refrains and are repeated alternately throughout the poem as the final lines of the following tercets.
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)
The rhyme royal stanza consists of seven lines, usually in iambic pentameter.The rhyme scheme is ABABBCC. In practice, the stanza can be constructed either as a tercet and two couplets (ABA BB CC) or a quatrain and a tercet (ABAB BCC).