linked verse

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.

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.

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