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Terza rima
dantes divine comedy
Terza rima is a form of poetry that consists of tercets, or three-line stanzas, in which the second line of each stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the following stanza. It is commonly associated with Dante's "Divine Comedy."
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The type of poetry described is a terza rima, featuring three-line stanzas with the rhyme scheme ABA BCB CDC, and so on.
Rhymed lines that are usually of the same length and form a stanza are a poem. There are several stanza forms including the couplet, tercet, terza rima, quatrain, rhyme royal, ottava rima, sonnet, Spenserian stanza, and others.
A peculiar and complicated system of versification, borrowed by the early Italian poets from the Troubadours.
"Terza" is an Italian word that translates to "third" in English. In literary terms, it often refers to "terza rima," a poetic form consisting of interlocking three-line stanzas with a specific rhyme scheme (ABA BCB CDC, etc.). This structure creates a continuous flow of thought and is famously used by poets like Dante Alighieri in "The Divine Comedy."
terza rima
Dante's epic poem "The Divine Comedy," is written in three canticas, each containing 33 cantos. The scheme used for the verses of these cantos is called "terza rima," and consists ot tercets (three lines) of 11 syllables each.
A 10-line poem is called a decastich and a 13-line poem is called a terza rima.
there is an expectation of rhyme, so the reader is pulled foward