This verse form was made particularly famous because Dante used
it in
The Divine Comedy
. It requires three-line stanzas (tercets) with the rhyme
scheme
a b a, b c b, c d c
and so on. It is much more suited to Romance languages than to
English, and especially to Italian where the high frequency of
vowel sounds at the ends of words makes such a structure feasible
and even necessary.
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Citation:
Editors, Litencyc. "Terza Rima". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 November 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1095, accessed 19 March 2024.]