A nine-line stanza containing one quatrain with internal rhyme and a tail-rhymed cauda, rhyming AAAABCCCB; or, a thirteen-line stanza containing a cross-rhymed octet frons, a tercet cauda with tail-rhymes, the whole rhyming ABABABABCDDDC.
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William Baer observes of the tercets of terza rima, " These interlocking rhymes tend to pull the listener's attention forward in a continuous flow . . . . Given this natural tendency to glide forward, terza rima is especially well-suited to narration and description ".
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Thus, in the first two quatrains the music sets forth the tonic key and moves to the dominant ( exposition ); the exploration of a variety of keys in the first tercet forms a development; and the reassertion of the tonic in the second tercet forms a recapitulation.
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Thus, in the first two quatrains the music sets forth the tonic key and moves to the dominant ( exposition ); the exploration of a variety of keys in the first tercet forms a development; and the reassertion of the tonic in the second tercet forms a recapitulation.
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Since they are composed of a variable number of lines, an individual tornada can also be known as by more general poetic labels that apply to stanza length, according to where it is used; the tornada of a sestina, comprising three lines, is also known as a tercet.
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The tercet benefits from Dante's terza rima ( compare the " Divina Commedia " ), the quatrains prefer the ABBA-ABBA to the ABAB-ABAB scheme of the Sicilian verse ) are excluded, but the rhyme of open and closed " o " is kept.
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In Canto LXXII, imitative of Dante's tercets ( " terza rima " ), Pound meets the recently dead Futurist writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and they discuss the current war and the dangers of excessive love of the past ( Pound's librarian friend, Manlio Torquato Dazzi ) or of the future ( Marinetti ).
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In his first printed play, " La Pastoral ", labeled " a rural comedy ", he contrasts Arcadian shepherds who tell of their frustrated loves in affected tercets, with the peasants Ruzzante and Zilio, who deliver rustic verses in Venetian, generously spiced with vulgarities and obscenities ( starting with Ruzante's very first word in the play ).
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Variants include the " rondeau tercet ", where the refrain consists of three verses, the " rondeau quatrain ", where it consists of four ( and, accordingly, the whole form of sixteen ), and the " rondeau cinquain ", with a refrain of five verses ( and a total length of 21 ), which becomes the norm in the 15th century.
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Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern A-B-A, B-C-B, C-D-C, D-E-D . There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet.
