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Three lines of verse
Answer for the clue "Three lines of verse ", 6 letters:
tercet
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Word definitions for tercet in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tercet \Ter"cet\, n. [F., fr. It. terzetto, dim. of terzo, third, L. tertius. See Tierce , and cf. Terzetto .] (Mus.) A triplet. --Hiles. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. a three-line stanza in a poem
Usage examples of tercet.
It has fourteen lines that divide into an octave of a rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA and a sestet CDC DCD, really two tercets.
A vague idea had stirred while I was reading Louis MacNeice's long poem ``Autumn Journal'' written in tercets, but it was while reading Part II of T.
Eliot's ``Little Gidding'' that it struck me that, though unrhymed, the poem was also written in tercets, the form favoured by Dante.