Look up: tercet

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   Tercet
   Ter'cet noun [ French, from Italian terzetto , dim. of terzo , third, Latin tertius . See Tierce , and confer Terzetto .] 1. (Mus.) A triplet. Hiles. 2. (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/T/28
   
   
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   Tercet
   A `tercet` is three lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem. A three line stanza. Haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an `a b a` pattern and terza rima where the `a b a` 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 as in Dante Alighieri's Divine Come...
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   Tercet
   • (n.) A triplet. • (n.) A triplet; a group of three lines.
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   tercet
   a unit or group of three lines of verse, usually containing rhyme, as in William Shakespeare`s `The Phoenix and the Turtle`: Death is now the ...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/26
   
   
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   tercet
   tercet A group of three lines of verse that rhyme with each other or with another group of three.
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   tercet
   a rhyming triplet, found in sequences such as • aaa bbb (for example, Thomas Hardy's 'The Convergence of the Twain')
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