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	Terza Rima - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		TERZA RIMA, or "third rhyme," a form of verse adapted from the Italian poets of the 13th century.
		The serventese incatenato of the latter was an arrangement of triple rhymes, and unquestionably appears to have a relation with terza rima; this connexion becomes almost a certainty when we consider the admiration expressed by the Tuscan poets of the 13th century for the metrical inventions of their forerunners, the Provengals.
		The only way in which a poem in terza rima can be closed is by abandoning a rhyme, as at the end of Canto i of the Inferno, where no third rhyme is supplied to Pietro and dietro.
	98.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TE/TERZA_RIMA.htm (492 words)

	Terza rima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Terza rima is a rhyming verse stanza form that was first used by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
		Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d.
		There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Terza_rima (520 words)

	SparkNotes: Inferno: Addendum: Terza Rima
		Terza rima utilizes three-line stanzas, which combine iambic meter with a propulsive rhyme scheme.
		Dante’s use of terza rima underscores the intricate connections among story, form, and theme in Inferno, an unprecedented and unmatched unity of parts that is probably Dante’s greatest poetic achievement.
		Terza rima also serves to link the poem’s smaller formal structure to its larger geometry, for the three-line stanzas mirror the three-pronged nature of the entire Divine Comedy, which comprises Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
	www.sparknotes.com /poetry/inferno/section14.rhtml (796 words)

	Terza Rima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Terza Rima (“third rhyme”;) is a pattern created by Dante Alighieri for use in his 13th century masterpiece, The Divine Comedy.
		Terza rima uses chain rhyme, in which some relationship is established between rhymes in one stanza and the next.
		In terza rima, the middle line of the first stanza introduces the rhyme used in the first and third lines of the second stanza, and so on.
	thewordshop.tripod.com /terzarima.html (349 words)

	Terza Rima
		Terza rima is a poetry form that uses three-line stanzas, with an interlocking rhyme-scheme.
		TERZA RIMA, or " third rhyme," is a form of verse adapted from the Italian poets of the 13th century.
		The serventese in-catenato of the latter was an arrangement of triple rhymes, and unquestionably appears to have a relation with terza rima; this connexion becomes almost a certainty when we consider the admiration expressed by the Tuscan poets of the 13th century for the metrical inventions of their forerunners, the Provencals.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /thecageunhitched/TerzaRimaInf.htm (617 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Poetic Form: Terza Rima
		Terza rima is typically written in an iambic line, and in English, most often in iambic pentameter.
		Fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer introduced terza rima to England with his poem "Complaints to his Lady," while Thomas Wyatt is credited, with popularizing its use in the English language through his translations and original works.
		Those who have written in terza rima usually employ near and slant rhymes, as the English language, though syntactically quite versatile, is rhyme poor.
	www.poets.org /viewmedia.php/prmMID/5794 (486 words)

	TERZA RIMA - Online Information article about TERZA RIMA
		The serventese in-catenate of the latter was an arrangement of triple rhymes, and unquestionably appears to have a relation with terza rima; this connexion becomes almost a certainty when we consider the admiration expressed by the Tuscan poets of the 13th century for the metrical inventions of their forerunners, the Provencals.
		What this character is may best be seen by an examination of the austere and majestic lines with which the Inferno opens, no more perfect example of terza rima having ever been composed: Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita Mi retrovai per una selva obscura, Che la diritta via era smarrita.
		The only way in which a poem in terza rima can be closed is by abandoning a rhyme, as at the end of See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /TAV_THE/TERZA_RIMA.html (610 words)

	Terza Rima
		TERZA RIMA is a simple rhyme stanza which can be used to build large poems.
		Terza means a group of three, and Rima means rhyme.
		In a TERZA RIMA the first and third line rhyme with each other and the middle line is free.
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		Terza rima is a verse form composed of iambic tercets (three-line groupings).
		Although the terza rima is an inflexible and strict stanza, it has been used successfully by a number of poets, including Boccaccio (Amorosa Visione), Petrarch (I Trionfi), Chaucer ("Complaint to His Lady") and several English Renaissance poets.
		More recently one finds terza rima employed by Lord Byron in his "Prophecy of Dante" and Shelly in "The Triumph of Life." Some modern poets who have used the form are W. Auden ("The Sea and the Mirror") and Archibald MacLeish ("Conquistador").
	www.english.emory.edu /classes/Handbook/terzarima.html (323 words)

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		Williams's "Yachts" is indebted to the terza rima of
		Rhyme is a central concern for any translator of the Commedia because of the importance of terza rima, a rhyme scheme of great narrative momentum and thematic suggestibility.
		In terza rima the first and third lines of each tercet rhyme with each other and with the central line in the antecedent terzina (aba bcb cdc and so on), producing the effect of two steps forward and one step back.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/88v/terza.html (568 words)

	Work: The Virelai Postmoderne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Terza rima, as the name suggests, is an Italian rhyming scheme involving the number three.
		So the formula for the length of a poem or stretch of verse in terza rima is 3n+1, where n is the number of groups.
		It also happens to be a number which satisfies the terza rima formula (3n + 1, as of course you will recall), where n = 2.
	www.csidemedia.com /work.php?work_id=256 (1644 words)

	Terza rima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Terza rima is a three-line stanza using chain rhyme in the pattern a-b-a,b-c-b, c-d-c, d-e-d.
		There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end witheither a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet.
		Although adifficult form to use in English because of the relative paucity of rhyme words available in what is, in comparison with Italian,not an inflected language, terza rima has been used by Milton, Byron (in his Prophecy of Dante) and Shelley (in his Ode to the West Wind and The Triumph of Life).
	www.therfcc.org /terza-rima-11280.html (415 words)

	Bardic Circle - Terza Rima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Italian form, terza rima (meaning ‘third rhyme’) consists of three-line stanzas (tercets) and a terminal couplet or triplet.
		There is no set number of stanzas for terza rima, and the lines may be of any length and in any meter, although iambic pentameter is usual.
		As with most forms, there are variations on these ‘rules’ for terza rima.
	www.courtofthefey.com /courtofthefey/library/poetry/terza.shtml (268 words)

	Terza Rima
		The poet Dante is credited with inventing the form, and used it for his Divine Comedy, perhaps as a means of symbolizing the Trinity, and for giving an overall sense of unity to his large work.
		Dante may have fashioned the terza rima after the Old Provencal "sirventes" which was a lyric poem form used by
		In Robert Pinsky's translation of the Inferno, however, Pinsky retains the tercet form and interlocking rhyme of the terza rima.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page4.html (503 words)

	Poetry Knowledge Zone - Class 9 : Terza Rima
		It consists of tercets written in iambic pentameter (will be explained below) and the concluding line may be a couplet rima sonnet> or a single line.
		Schuchardt has developed an ingenious theory that these successive terzinas are really chains of ritournera just as ottava rima, according to the same theory, is a chain of rispetti.
		There is no fixed length to a terza rima but they are generally used to tell a story of epic proportions and hence normally easily run over 100 lines.
	www.boloji.com /poetry/learningzone/pkz9.htm (671 words)

	FJ.org: a literary resource (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Terza Rima is a thee-line stanza (or tercet) form that has been around since the very early 1300s.
		The stanzas of the terza rima use a 'chain' rhyming system, with rhymes of a-b-a, b-c-b, c-d-c, etc. The poem ends with an extra line or couplet rhyming with the middle line of the previous tercet.
		An example of the Terza Rima in English is Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, the beginning section of which is as follows: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
	fribblejunk.org /essays/terzarima.php (180 words)

	Poems at the Poetry Free-for-all - Notes on Terza Rima
		Terza rima is a highly adaptable verse form, invented by Dante for use
		Greg Williamson used a slightly different version of "inverted terza rima" which both begins and ends with a couplet, producing the pattern aa bab cbc dcd.
		Terza rima, because of the interlocking rhymes, produces a strong
	www.everypoet.org /pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=9917 (1456 words)

	Terza Rima
		In my opinion Terza rima is the most demanding rhyme and structure
		terza rima in English is that it is extremely demanding, since each
		section of terza rima is closed with a couplet.
	www.public.asu.edu /~aarios/formsofverse/anecdotes/page4.html (348 words)

	Writing Activity - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Terza rima is a poetry form that uses three-line stanzas in a pre-defined sequence.
		Your terza rima poem can be as long as you wish, providing you follow the rhyme-scheme.
		Traditional terza rima is usually written in iambic pentametre.
	www.inspired2write.com /wordweav/exers/terza.html (237 words)

	Terza Rima
		The terza rima of Dante's Divine Comedy, was the main influence on subsequent (e.g.
		Terza rima produces a rhyme scheme of great narrative momentum and thematic suggestibility.
		Because English is a language with greater lexical resources but far less capacity for rhyme, rhyming on the scale demanded by terza rima feels more like chiming, and can be both obtrusive and comic.
	www.mtsn.org.uk /cer/classicpoetry/Terza_Rima.html (604 words)

	Opera Directory
		Perhaps the most famous example of terza rima in English.
		Personality Quiz - What Poetry Form Am I? A terza rima that describes the "personality" of a terza rima.
		With html code for transferring the terza rima to your site and links to "personality quizzes" for other poetic forms.
	portal.opera.com /directory/?cat=5806514 (222 words)

	Guide to Verse Forms - Terza Rima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Terza Rima is a chained form with three-line stanzas (tercets).
		Cameras scan blindly, the bypass deserted, The last ever up-train long since departed.
		This precise form and length of terza rima happens to have 14 lines, and is therefore sometimes known as a terza rima sonnet - though some would quibble over whether it was a "proper" sonnet.
	www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com /vf/terza.htm (235 words)

	terza rima - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Terza Rima : Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
		TERZA RIMA : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Words similar to terza rima: terze rime, more...
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	triolet
		Now that you have tackled the Terzanelle and the Villanelle, this is the form they grew from, another Italian form, the Terza Rima.
		This is a challenging form, but it should not seem the least bit daunting after the great work you have been doing with the other two.
		The Terza Rima is written in triplets, or tercets, like the two forms you have been working with.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /gryphonsmith/fileg/verse/terzarima.html (490 words)

	Poetic References (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		terza rima, and were used by Dante for The Divine
		rima is stronger than that of open couplets, and
		or terza rima, in which the second line of each stanza
	www.newpoetspress.com /terza.html (243 words)

	terza rima definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
		terza rima definition - Dictionary - MSN Encarta
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		Italian verse form: a rhyming verse form of Italian origin consisting of three-line, 11-syllable verses tercets, with the middle line of one verse rhyming with the first and third lines of the next
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	terza rima - OneLook Dictionary Search
		terza rima : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		terza rima : UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
		terza rima : WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
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