A stanza of three lines linked by rhyme is generally called?

Smarteli

6 years ago

A three line stanza is called a tercet. A four
line stanza is a quatrain, and a five line
stanza is a quintet. Two other common
lengths are a sestet, six lines; and an octave,
eight lines. For instance, you might break a
fourteen line poem into three quatrains and
a couplet, or into an octave and a sestet.

delibee

6 years ago

A three line stanza is called a tercet. A four line stanza is a quatrain, and a five line stanza is a quintet. Two other common lengths are a sestet, six lines; and an octave, eight lines. For instance, you might break a fourteen line poem into three quatrains and a couplet.
A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem.
English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, AAA; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.
Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an ABA pattern and terza rima where the ABA pattern of a verse is continued in the next verse by making the outer lines of the next stanza rhyme with the central line of the preceding stanza, BCB, as in the terza rima or terzina form of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. There has been much investigation of the possible sources of the Dantesque terzina, which Benedetto Croce characterised as "linked, enclosed, disciplined, vehement and yet calm".[3] William Baer observes of the tercets of terza rima, "These interlocking rhymes tend to pull the listener's attention forward in a continuous flow.... Given this natural tendency to glide forward, terza rima is especially well-suited to narration and description".

The tercet also forms part of the villanelle, where the initial five stanzas are tercets, followed by a concluding quatrain.
A tercet may also form the separate halves of the ending sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet.

Smashing

6 years ago

A three line stanza is called a tercet. A four
line stanza is a quatrain, and a five line
stanza is a quintet. Two other common
lengths are a sestet, six lines; and an octave,
eight lines. For instance, you might break a
fourteen line poem into three quatrains and
a couplet, or into an octave and a sestet.

MaraeX

6 years ago

it's called a tercet


A three line stanza is called a tercet.
A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, AAA; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.

mhizzlee

6 years ago

A tercet, sometimes also called a triplet, is a stanza with three lines of the same rhyme (aaa or two rhyming lines embracing a line without rhyme (axa).
Example:


Released from the noise of the butcher and baker,
Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her,
And from the soft duns of my landlord the Quaker;

From chiding the footmen, and watching the lasses,
From Nell that burned milk too, and Tom that broke glasses
(Sad mischiefs through which a good housekeeper passes!);

From some real care, but more fancied vexation,
From a life parti-coloured, half reason, half passion,
Here lies after all the best wench in the nation.
(From: Prior, Jinny the Just)