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- noun Plural form of
tercet .
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Examples
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Stanzas of three lines riming _aaa_ (called tercets or triplets) are not very common.
The Principles of English Versification Paull Franklin Baum
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The two three-word tercets mirror each other, moving into and out of particulars.
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A woman and a man, who read the last tercets aaaof a certain canto.
jorge luis borges | the just « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009
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Newspapers stack their headlines like verse – couplets, tercets, or quatrains – set flush left or stepped.
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There essentially are no pauses of any kind between the tercets.
Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie Lemon Hound 2009
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Four pages of tercets, stripped of all exposition and direction, slog onward, unfold.
Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie Lemon Hound 2009
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In "Domestic Situation," Hilbert has varied the Shakespearian rhyme scheme--abcabcdefdefgg--which subtly breaks the poem into tercets rather than quatrains.
Archive 2009-08-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Defence (the "Ode" was composed approximately a year and a half before the Defence), the first two tercets of the last stanza of the "Ode" reveal the poet as both a suppliant and an intendant of the West
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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In "Domestic Situation," Hilbert has varied the Shakespearian rhyme scheme--abcabcdefdefgg--which subtly breaks the poem into tercets rather than quatrains.
News at Eleven: This is something one may hear Rus Bowden 2009
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Newspapers stack their headlines like verse – couplets, tercets, or quatrains – set flush left or stepped.
In ‘Late for Work,’ Poet David Tucker Finds the Life in Deadlines « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008
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