ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Terza rima was invented early in the fourteenth century by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri for his narrative poem the Divine Comedy, which he set in hendecasyllabic lines.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Each canto has a variable number of lines or verses, but most are approximately the same length. Dante uses, very famously, an unusual rhyme scheme called terza rima (literally, “third rhyme").

Detailed explanation-4: -Italian poet and scholar Dante Alighieri is best known for his masterpiece La Commedia (known in English as The Divine Comedy), which is universally considered one of world literature’s greatest poems.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dante writes all of The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise) away from Florence. The Inferno is was completed by 1314. The FICTIONAL date of this poem is 1300. The week is “Passion Week” or the days leading up to Easter, the anniversary, for Christians, of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.