But its form is obviously not new, per the above tercet. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
The tercet of the maidens is one of the loveliest pieces of music ever written. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Viewing the poem as such, we see this rhyme scheme: ABCBDED how creepy is the last tercet. From Wordnik.com. [Lynn Crosbie reads Sid Vicious and Entertains A Few Questions] Reference
Jukka considers Randion screpts a haynaku collection though the tercet word-count goes 2, 1, 3. From Wordnik.com. [JUKKA-PEKKA KERVINEN'S SOULFUL MACHINE] Reference
The basic haynaku is a tercet comprised of a one-word line, two-word line, then three-word line. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
I'm less taken with "like a bad suit," in the first tercet, which I take as the poet's own construct. From Wordnik.com. [Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie] Reference
Fisher arranges the lines into 6 couplets and a tercet, a variation on the form known as the couplet sonnet. From Wordnik.com. [A Good Hanukkah Poem for Children « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
When there are two verses the stanza is called a couplet; a three line stanza is called a tercet; a four line stanza, a quatrain. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
It's fun to have some words (those with which a tercet ends) hang ambiguously for a moment, and for others (those which begin the following tercet) come out of a silence. From Wordnik.com. [Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie] Reference
This sets the stage for a listing of stanzaic forms moving from the couplet, through the tercet to finally arriving at the ode and unusual forms such as the sequidilla and the haiku, etc. From Wordnik.com. [THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO] Reference
The opening of the second system, strictly the first tercet, should turn back upon the thought or sentiment, take it up and carry it forward to the conclusion. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
I devised this modus operandi: I first read a verse, a tercet, in the English prose; then I read the verse in Italian; and so on through to the end of the canto. From Wordnik.com. [Digital History Hacks (2005-08)] Reference
For all their disarticulation, Morrison's poems employ an elaborate formal fiction. "please advise stop" is one of fifty-four poems with the same title and three-tercet form. From Wordnik.com. [PoetryFoundation.org] Reference
There is a main pause in passing from the octave to the sestet, and frequently there are minor pauses in passing from the first quatrain to the second, and from the first tercet to the last. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
The lingering, opulent scene-setting in the "dear nook" section is impressive, but most remarkable are the changes of mood and pace in the 14 concluding lines - a sonnet's-worth of compressed drama - that culminate in a miraculously structured tercet. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Robert Wrigley recently asked his MFA poetry students to study sestinas, which, according to Wikipedia, are "highly structured poem (s) consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet (called its envoy or tornada), for a total of thirty-nine lines.". From Wordnik.com. [NewWest Bozeman] Reference
Dante brings to Italy the "terza rima", or triplet rhyme, which structures the poem in tercets closely linked to the preceding and following rhymes, so that a rhyme is never introduced that has not been framed by two earlier rhymes, with the exception of the first tercet of the canto. From Wordnik.com. [FP Passport] Reference
But, it’s not in a league with any of that tercet. From Wordnik.com. [CRITERION: THE RULES OF THE GAME | Obsessed With Film] Reference
A tercet: 3 lines. From Wordnik.com. [qarrtsiluni] Reference
Linked diminishing line tercet nonce form. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
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