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Invented by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri in the late thirteenth century to structure his threepart epic poem, The Divine Comedy, terza rima is composed of tercets woven into a rhyme scheme that requires the endword of the second line in one tercet to supply the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet.

 

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