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tercet
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three , 3 , III , trio , threesome , tierce , leash , troika , triad , trine , trinity , ternary , ternion , triplet , terzetto , trey , deuce-ace ]
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry , forming a stanza or a complete poem.
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.