linked verse

American  

noun

Prosody.

1. a Japanese verse form in which stanzas of three lines alternating with stanzas of two lines are composed by two or more poets in alternation.

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Example Sentences

The project has also recruited 54 well-known poets, who collaborated on “Crossing State Lines,” a book of linked verse in the tradition of the Japanese renga, published this week by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

From New York Times