Example of tercet and couplet?

Question

I'd like to see an example of both tercet and couplet. It has to be a real poem and not made up. Thanks

Answer 1

1. couplet:
English (Shakespearian)- this contains 3 Sicilian quatrains and one heroic couplet at the end, with an "abab cdcd efef gg" rhyme scheme. The turn comes at or near line 13, making the ending couplet quick and dramatic. Not many modern writers have taken to writing the Shakesperean sonnet. e. e. cummings, not known to the general public for sonnet writing, supplies us with a Shakespearean sonnet example:
)when what hugs stopping earth than silent is
more silent than more than much more is or
total sun oceaning than any this
tear jumping from each most least eye of star

and without was if minus and shall be
immeasurable happenless unnow
shuts more than open could that every tree
or than all his life more death begins to grow

end's ending then these dolls of joy and grief
these recent memories of future dream
these perhaps who have lost their shadows if
which did not do the losing spectres mine

until out of merely not nothing comes
only one snowflake(and we speak our names

EXAMPLE
See Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress": "The grave's a fine and private place, / But none, I think, do there embrace." Iambic pentameter couplets are called . The adjective was applied in the latter seventeenth.


2. tercet:
Note that the following terms are used to group lines in a stanza together: two lines make a COUPLET three lines make a TERCET four lines make a QUATRAIN six lines make a SESTET

ALEXANDRINE. A line of twelve syllables, divided (by a comma or other pause) into two half-lines (HEMISTICHS) of six syllables each. The two hemistichs stand in a relationship of complementarity to each other, which in turn are frequently complemented by the next line which rhymes to form a COUPLET. (Other rhyme schemes are possible.) The alexandrine is particularly associated with French verse, where it was viritually the only form from the sixteenth through the late 19th centuries. The play Tartuffe, by Molière, was originally in alexandrines, which the English translator has shortened to 10 or 11 syllables.

FREE VERSE We speak of free verse when the poem does not follow any regular meter of stressed/unstressed accents. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass comes to mind in American free verse usage:

Sing on there in the swamp,
O singer bashful and tender, I hear your notes, I hear your call,
I hear, I come presently, I understand you,
But a moment I linger, for the lustrous star has detain'd me,
The star my departing comrade holds and detains me.
(from Memories of President Lincoln)

MADRIGAL
The madrigal consists of lines of 7 or 11 syllables, in two or three-line stanzas, with no set rhyme scheme.

SONNET
A poem of 14 lines, all of which rhyme with at least one other line in a set pattern. The Petrarchan sonnet consists of two QUATRAINS followed by two TERCETS (4+4+3+3=14), while the Shakespearean sonnet consists of three QUATRAINS and a concluding COUPLET (3X4+2=14).

SESTINA
An unhrymed verse form of six six-line stanzas, followed by a TERCET. The same six words recur at the end of each line in each stanza, but in a varying order. The same six words must recur in the conluding TERCET as well.

TERZA RIMA
Three-line stanzas (TERCETS), where the middle line of one stanza rhymes with the first and third lines of the next stanza. For an idea of how terza rima works, see Ciardi's translation of Dante in your anthology.

VILLANCICO
The villancico, a Spanish form, is usually on a religious, pastoral, or other popular theme, expecially those relating to Christmas. An opening stanza provides, in whole or in part, a REFRAIN for the remaining stanzas (usually about six). The last line of the STANZA rhymes with the first line of the REFRAIN.


EXAMPLE
Do not go Gentle into that Good Night
by
Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

This poem provides a good example of a Tercet Stanza.

Answer 2

This poem is entirely made up of couplets.

Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

-- Robert Frost

The first three lines of every verse in this poem is a tercet.

The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-- Robert Frost

A tercet is a 3 line A B A rhyme, a couplet is two lines that rhyme. Pax - C.

Answer 3

Tercets

Dante Aligheiri's Divine Comedy is written in tercets. It is a rhyme scheme that weaves itself in and out of each other.
ABA BCB CDC...

In English, see Hayden Carruth's "Adolf Eichmann"

A couplet is just any two lines that rhyme, follow one another, and are approximately the same length.

Most of British rhymed poetry up until the Romantic Period is based on either the couplet or the quatrain. From Pope's Essay on Criticism:

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labors and the words move slow;

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Example of tercet and couplet?
I'd like to see an example of both tercet and couplet. It has to be a real poem and not made up. Thanks

Answer 5

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Answer 6

A couplet is two consecutive lines rhyming. You can also use the term "couplet rhyme". Example:

Presume not on thy heart when mine is slain,
Thou gav'st me thine not to give back again
(Shakespeare, sonnet 22)

A tercet is three lines of poetry, either as a stanza in a poem, or as a whole poem. It can rhyme or not. If it rhymes "aba", it is called an "enclosed tercet" (because it is an enclosed rhyme). Example of tercets, in Shelley's Ode to the West Wind, which is a series of tercets with their rhymes interlocking (aba bcb, etc...) a form called "terza rima":

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being,
Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead
Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red.
Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou,
Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed