Editing Tercet (section)

==Examples of tercet forms==

[[Haiku in English|English-language haiku]] is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same [[rhyme scheme|rhyme]], AAA; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of [[heroic couplet]]s or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.<ref>Baer 2006.</ref>

Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an ABA pattern and [[terza rima]] where the ABA pattern of a verse is continued in the next verse by making the outer lines of the next stanza rhyme with the central line of the preceding stanza, BCB, as in the ''terza rima'' or ''terzina'' form of [[Dante Alighieri]]'s ''[[Divine Comedy]]''. There has been much investigation of the possible sources of the Dantesque ''terzina'', which [[Benedetto Croce]] characterised as "linked, enclosed, disciplined, vehement and yet calm".<ref>Croce,  (M.E. Moss, tr.) ''Essays on Literature and Literary Criticism'', 1990, "Dante's poetry", p 290.</ref> 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".<ref>Baer 2006, p. 130.</ref>

The tercet also forms part of the [[villanelle]], where the initial five stanzas are tercets, followed by a concluding [[quatrain]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2017-05-21|title=Tercet - Examples and Definition of Tercet|url=https://literarydevices.net/tercet/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=Literary Devices|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Claggett|first=Mary Frances|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8g9KAAAAYAAJ|title=Teaching Writing: Craft, Art, Genre|date=2005|publisher=National Council of Teachers of English|isbn=978-0-8141-5250-8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Soles|first=Derek|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5LkWAQAAMAAJ|title=The Prentice Hall Pocket Guide to Understanding Literature|date=2002|publisher=Prentice Hall|isbn=978-0-13-026994-2|language=en}}</ref>

A tercet may also form the separate halves of the ending [[sestet]] in a [[Petrarchan sonnet]], where the rhyme scheme is ABBAABBACDCCDC, as in Longfellow's "Cross of Snow". For example, while "Cross of Snow" is indeed a Petrarchan sonnet, it does not follow the form of ABBA, ABBA CDC, CDC.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kahn|first=Aaron M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WLwcEAAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Handbook of Cervantes|date=2021-02-16|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-106058-8|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Cox|first=Virginia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fPAMXG_0NUYC|title=Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance|date=2013-07-31|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-0950-4|language=en}}</ref> Instead, its form is ABBA CDDC EFG EFG. A tercet also ends [[sestina]]s where the keywords of the lines before are repeated in a highly ordered form.