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Definition of Tercets
1. tercet [n] - See also: tercet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tercets
Literary usage of Tercets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sonnet; Its Origin, Structure, and Place in Poetry: With Original by Charles Tomlinson (1874)
"... and a sestet of six; these being further subdivided into two quatrains and
two tercets, each of the two separate parts having its own system of rhymes. ..."
2. Sonnets on the Sonnet: An Anthology (1898)
"QUATRAINS AND tercets I hear the quatrains' rolling melody, The second answering
back her sister's sounds Like a repeated music, that resounds A second time ..."
3. The Sonnet: Its Origin, Structure, and Place in Poetry by Charles Tomlinson (1874)
"... and a sestet of six ; these being further subdivided into two quatrains and
two tercets, each of the two separate parts having its own system of rhymes. ..."
4. Grammar of the French Language by Nicolas Wanostrocht (1824)
"Le sixain se coupe en deux tercets, c'est-à-dire, en deux stances de trois vers.
... Les deux quatrains et les deux tercets doivent être terminés chacun par ..."
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