terza rima
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Definition(s):
- (n) a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.
Usage(s):
- Yet Merrill's own repertoire includes a Horatian ode, several forms of sonnets, a slightly modified villanelle and a stretch of Dantesque terza rima.
- His terza rima stanzas have no rhyme, but instead a subtle assonance.
- Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza.
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/ɪn ˈsɛn di ɛ ri /
/ɪn ˈsɛn di ɛ ri /