tercet

• 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. —  FP Passport
• 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. —  Digital History Hacks (2005-08)
• The sestet continues in the first tercet, cde_, the thought or feeling in a new direction or from a new point of view, and in the second, cde_, brings it to a full conclusion. —  The Principles of English Versification
• The tercet of the maidens is one of the loveliest pieces of music ever written. —  The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas
• The sestet continues in the first tercet, —  The Principles of English Versification

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