tercet
Prosody. a group of three lines rhyming together or connected by rhyme with the adjacent group or groups of three lines.
Music. triplet (def. 5).
Origin of tercet
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How to use tercet in a sentence
The common form of the sestina has six stanzas of six lines each, with a tercet at the end.
English Verse | Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.When there are two verses the stanza is called a couplet; a three line stanza is called a tercet; a four line stanza, a quatrain.
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British Dictionary definitions for tercet
/ (ˈtɜːsɪt, tɜːˈsɛt) /
a group of three lines of verse that rhyme together or are connected by rhyme with adjacent groups of three lines
Origin of tercet
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