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Terza rima is a verse form composed of iambic tercets threeline groupings. The rhyme scheme for this form of poetry is aba bcb cdc, etc. The second line of each tercet sets the rhyme for the following tercet, and thus supplying the verse with a common thread, a way to link the stanzas.

 


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