Editing Tercet (section)

==History==
Tercets (or ''[[wikt:tristich|tristichs]]'') using [[Parallelism (rhetoric)|parallelism]] appear in [[Biblical poetry|Biblical]] [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] poetry.<ref>Kugel, James ''The Idea of Biblical Poetry: Parallelism & Its History''. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1981 {{ISBN|9780801859441}}</ref><ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/11902-parallelism-in-hebrew-poetry Jewish Encyclopedia.com]</ref>

The tercet was introduced into [[English poetry]] by [[Thomas Wyatt (poet)|Sir Thomas Wyatt]] in the 16th century. It was employed by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley|Shelley]] and is the form used in [[George Gordon, Lord Byron|Byron]]'s ''The Prophecy of Dante''.<ref>Noted in ''[[Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia]]'', 1948, s.v. "tercet", "terza rima"</ref>