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terza rima
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ter·za ri·ma  (trts rm)
n. pl. ter·ze ri·me (trts rm)
A verse form of Italian origin consisting of tercets of 10 or 11 syllables with the middle line rhyming with the first and third lines of the following tercet.
[Italian : terza, feminine of terzo, third + rima, rhyme.]
terza rima [ˈtɛətsə ˈriːmə]
n pl terze rime [ˈtɛətseɪ ˈriːmeɪ]
(Literature / Poetry) a verse form of Italian origin consisting of a series of tercets in which the middle line of one tercet rhymes with the first and third lines of the next
[from Italian, literally: third rhyme]
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Noun1.terza rima - a verse form with a rhyme scheme: aba bcb cdc, etc.
poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines
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8) Franco responded to his scathing attacks through certain poems and letters, and the very publication of her Terze rime constituted a rebuttal to Venier's verbal and psychological assault.
Veronica Franco vs. Maffio Venier: sex, death, and poetry in ... by Wojciehowski, Dolora Chapelle / Italica
Chapter five, "The Courtesan in Exile: An Elegiac Future," offers a Franco freed from the immediate necessity of self-defense, taking up the persona of abandoned lover in her Terze rime and working through its classical intertextuality to present (in Rosenthal's closing words) a "corrective vision" of "social harmony .
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