Definition of Tercet. Meaning of Tercet. Synonyms of Tercet

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Definition of Tercet

Tercet
Tercet Ter"cet, n. [F., fr. It. terzetto, dim. of terzo, third, L. tertius. See Tierce, and cf. Terzetto.] 1. (Mus.) A triplet. --Hiles. 2. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.

Meaning of Tercet from wikipedia

- 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...
- consists of tercets (three-line stanzas) with an interlocking three-line rhyme scheme: The last word of the second line in one tercet provides the rhyme...
- of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated...
- Sestina: ABCDEF FAEBDC CFDABE ECBFAD DEACFB BDFECA, the seventh stanza is a tercet where line 1 has A in it but ends with D, line 2 has B in it but ends with...
- with the lines composing tercets according to the rhyme scheme ABA BCB CDC DED ... The total number of syllables in each tercet is thus 33, the same as...
- Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy), in which the original is rendered tercet by tercet into French. L'Enfer (1852) was crowned by the Academy; Le Purgatoire...
- collection of two lines is a couplet (or distich), three lines a triplet (or tercet), four lines a quatrain, and so on. These lines may or may not relate to...
- Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic stanza Sestain Sestet Sonnet Tail rhyme Tercet Triolet Terza rima Verse paragraph Villanelle Rhymes Alliteration ****onance...
- suited to each other and to the spirit of the day. They consist of 185 tercet antiphons arranged in three parts (stáseis or "stops"), which are interjected...
- Lightning All pages with titles containing Triplet Triplett (disambiguation) Tercet, or tristich, in poetry Triad (disambiguation), another general term for...