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Examples of tercet
tercet
The image of icicle as animal is pursued further in the next tercet.
From the guardian.co.uk
He can drop a tercet from the Florentine bard and he eats real fingers with his breakfast eggs.
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Musically they can be classified as strophic, with 75, 62, and 48 tercet stanzas each, respectively.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The sestet, with either two or three different rhymes, uses its first tercet to reflect on the theme and the last to conclude.
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- Three: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
- A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem. English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. ...
- A three-line stanza in a poem
- 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.
- Group of three lines in poetry, sometimes referred to as a triplet. Trochee: see under foot.
- A tercet is a three-lined stanza, often rhyming. A tercet is included in poetry styles such as terza rima, odes, sonnets, cantos and villanelles.
- A group of three lines that rhyme together and/or rhyme with adjacent or nearby groups of three lines.
- A stanza of three lines.
- Or triplet: a 3-line stanza with a single rhyme (aaa, bbb and so on) as in Tennyson's "The Eagle," or rhyming aba, as in Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle."
