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He favours challenging rhyme schemes and difficult forms, such as the sestina and terza rima.
Dante's terza rima is frustratingly hard to get right in English, and many translators have nearly gone mad trying to get it right.
Merwin opts not to follow the terza rima strictly, or rather he rhymes so freely that he chooses not to speak of it.
It is an elegantly satisfying form, a dramatic equivalent of terza rima, which democratically gives each actor two scenes each.
The portrait also contains sheets of simulated verse to emphasize that he specialized in terza rima and ottava rima.
There's nothing poetic about a local news personality, except when he does traffic in ottava rima.
Shelley composed this playful work of 78 stanzas in ottava rima within the space of three days.
The import of genre is most convincingly demonstrated in Vendler's chapter on Yeats's ottava rima poems.
Italian, Spanish and Portuguese long poems were usually written in terza rima or especially ottava rima.
Look for three prominent interior craters, as well as an ancient rima falling near the shadow's edge.
Nevertheless, in her daily follow-ups, in addition to anisocoria of her left eye rima oculi was narrow compared to her right rima oculi.
Terza rima follows a pattern in which each verse, or tercet, connects with the following verse through an unfailing rhyme.
But some are composed in traditional metres and stanzas, including ottava rima, tetrameter couplets, Spenserian stanzas, sonnets and Onegin-stanzas.
Examples from Classical Literature
The ottava rima of the Italians, the natural outcome of Keats's turning to Italy for his story.
One after another these nymphs tell their amorous adventures, and each closes her account with a song in terza rima.
The main movement of Poliziano's poem is intrusted to the traditional octave stanza, but we find passages of terza rima.
From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima.
It is written in hendecasyllabic ottava rima, and is divided into ten cantos containing in all 1102 stanzas.
The poem is written in ottava rima, but, very singularly, there is not one double rhyme from beginning to end.
The piece is written in a mixture of ottava and terza rima, with a variety of lyrics introduced.
So far as can be gathered, the verse appears to have been ottava rima with the introduction of lyrical passages.
But terza rima, ottava rima, and sonnets are an insufficient disguise for the formlessness of their matter.
This is a single stave of the ottava rima, at the close of the varying metrical forms of Lycidas.
Up to the date of the Selve the ottava rima had, so far as I know, been only used for semi-epical poems and short love-songs.
I have not seen this poem, and since it is composed in ottava rima it cannot be classed exactly with the Avvelenato.
That the ottava rima on the one hand, and the sonnet on the other, may have suggested the idea of it is quite possible.
The first of these, Erbusto, is in three acts, and terza rima.
A collection by Paul Muldoon, for instance, is likely to feature sonnets and villanelles alongside haiku and poems in terza rima.
The similar safeguard of Dante's terza rima will occur to every student.
So far the Eclogues have all been in Sannazzaro's terza rima.
Poliziano's Rispetti are written for the most part in ottava rima.
Among the poetic forms included are rondeau, terza rima, limerick, tetractys, cinquain, sonnet, pantoum, haiku, double dactyl, and epigram.
I'm really waiting for people to go to The Inferno and go to my work and see what I did as far as images and the terza rima.
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