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| | Usman Mobin's Very Quick Guide to Poetry |
 | | In the case where we have a group of rhymed triplet stanzas, it is possible to have interlocking rhymes, which would be manifested by, say, a rhyming pattern of (1, 2, 1; 2, 3, 2; 3, 4, 3; 4, 5, 4; 5, 5). |
 | | This particular interlocking rhyme where the unrhymed second verse of each triplet becomes the rhymed first and third verses of the next triplet, with the final rhymed couplet consisting of the unrhymed middle verse of the last triplet, is an Italian stanza form referred to as terza rima. |
 | | It is not permitted to vary the rhyme as (1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1) or (1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 4, 4, 3) for example. |
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