Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A group of three lines of verse, often rhyming together or with another triplet.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In music, same as
triplet . - noun In poetry, a group of three riming lines; a triplet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Mus.) A triplet.
- noun (Poetry) A triplet; a group of three lines.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
three -line stanza in apoem
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Fisher arranges the lines into 6 couplets and a tercet, a variation on the form known as the couplet sonnet.
A Good Hanukkah Poem for Children « One-Minute Book Reviews 2008
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Fisher arranges the lines into 6 couplets and a tercet, a variation on the form known as the couplet sonnet.
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For all their disarticulation, Morrison's poems employ an elaborate formal fiction. "please advise stop" is one of fifty-four poems with the same title and three-tercet form.
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Jukka considers Randion screpts a haynaku collection though the tercet word-count goes 2, 1, 3.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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It's fun to have some words (those with which a tercet ends) hang ambiguously for a moment, and for others (those which begin the following tercet) come out of a silence.
Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie Lemon Hound 2009
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Jukka considers Randion screpts a haynaku collection though the tercet word-count goes 2, 1, 3.
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I'm less taken with "like a bad suit," in the first tercet, which I take as the poet's own construct.
Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie Lemon Hound 2009
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When I first read the poem, I put in a slight pause after each tercet.
Sheryda Warrener reads Karen Solie Lemon Hound 2009
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This sets the stage for a listing of stanzaic forms moving from the couplet, through the tercet to finally arriving at the ode and unusual forms such as the sequidilla and the haiku, etc.
THE PROSODY HANDBOOK: A GUIDE TO POETIC FORM by ROBERT BEUM & KARL SHAPIRO EILEEN 2009
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Viewing the poem as such, we see this rhyme scheme: ABCBDED how creepy is the last tercet.
Archive 2008-10-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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