tristich

American  

[tris-tik] / ˈtrɪs tɪk /

noun

Prosody.

1. a strophe, stanza, or poem consisting of three lines.

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tristich British  

/ ˈtrɪstɪk /

noun

1. prosody a poem, stanza, or strophe that consists of three lines

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Other Word Forms

• tristichic adjective

Etymology

Origin of tristich

First recorded in 1805–15; tri- + stich ¹

Example Sentences

Low point of the performance: shrill Gracie Barrie singing I've Got To Get Hot, a ballad about a choir singer turned crooner which includes the following tristich: I've squelched my ideals, Now I belch at my meals� I had to get hot.

From Time Magazine Archive

I should have preferred, indeed, the ante-penultimate tristich as the finale of the poem.

From Project Gutenberg

His friend and protege was handcuffed before his eyes and carried off to the county jail amid the grins and stares of a score of gaping rustics, who would make a fine story of it this evening in both public-houses; and a hundred voices would echo some such conversational Tristich as this: 1st Rustic.

From Project Gutenberg