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Definition of tercet in English: tercetnoun ˈtəːsɪtˈtɛrsət Prosody A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent triplet. Example sentencesExamples - Another recurrent prosodic trait in this book is the repetition of tercets.
- But instead of following the never-ending spiral of an apple peel, the story is delimited by closed circularity: it begins with the last tercets and closes with the first quatrains of a sonnet.
- Both albums are rife with lyrical references to rolling hills, trees, creeks, dirty knees and breezes, and delivered in direct couplets or simply rhymed tercets.
- He compiles a list of expressions to designate this double object and devotes the sonnet's tercets to its description.
- To analyze a sonnet into quatrains and tercets is to recognize it as a sonnet, and so to relate it to a conventional lyrical category.
Origin Late 16th century: from French, from Italian terzetto, diminutive of terzo 'third', from Latin tertius. Definition of tercet in US English: tercetnounˈtersətˈtɛrsət Prosody A set or group of three lines of verse rhyming together or connected by rhyme with an adjacent tercet. Example sentencesExamples - To analyze a sonnet into quatrains and tercets is to recognize it as a sonnet, and so to relate it to a conventional lyrical category.
- But instead of following the never-ending spiral of an apple peel, the story is delimited by closed circularity: it begins with the last tercets and closes with the first quatrains of a sonnet.
- Both albums are rife with lyrical references to rolling hills, trees, creeks, dirty knees and breezes, and delivered in direct couplets or simply rhymed tercets.
- Another recurrent prosodic trait in this book is the repetition of tercets.
- He compiles a list of expressions to designate this double object and devotes the sonnet's tercets to its description.
Origin Late 16th century: from French, from Italian terzetto, diminutive of terzo ‘third’, from Latin tertius. |