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TERZA RIMA, or third rhyme, is a form of verse adapted from the Italian poets of the 13th century. It consists of tercets written in iambic pentameter and the concluding line may be a couplet or a single line. I quote from the 1911 edition of encyclopedia Love To Know – “Its origin has been attributed by some to the threelined ritourhel, which was an early Italian form of popular poetry, and by others to the sirventes of the Provencal troubadours.

 


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