Tercet

Entertainment / Literature / Tercet: A three-line unit or stanza of poetry. It typically rhymes in an AAA or ABA pattern. If the tercet forms a stanza by itself, it is often called a triplet.
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Tercet, Terzet

Lifestyle / Poetry / Tercet, Terzet: a rhyming triplet, found in sequences such as: aaa bbb (for example, Thomas Hardy's 'The Convergence of the Twain'), aba cdc (where b and d are unrhyming), abc abc (repeated), aba bcb (interlaced or l MORE

Terza Rima

Entertainment / Literature / Terza Rima: A three-line stanza form with interlocking rhymes that move from one stanza to the next. The typical pattern is ABA, BCB, CDC, DED, and so on. Dante chose terza rima's tripartite structure as the basi MORE

Catalectic

Entertainment / Literature / Catalectic: In poetry, a catalectic line is a truncated line in which one or more unstressed syllables have been dropped. For instance, acephalous or headless lines are catalectic, containing one fewer syllable t MORE

Rhyme Royal

Entertainment / Literature / Rhyme Royal: A seven-line stanzaic form invented by Chaucer in the fourteenth century and later modified by Spenser and other Renaissance poets. In rhyme royal, the stanzas are writen in iambic pentameter in a fix MORE

Curtal Sonnet

Lifestyle / Poetry / Curtal Sonnet: A short sonnet devised by gerard manley hopkins that maintains the proportions of the italian form (6:4.5 to 8:6), substituting two six-stress tercets for two quatrains in the octave (rhyming abc abc) MORE

Tristich

Entertainment / Literature / Tristich: Another term for a tercet. (Greek, 'three lines') MORE