FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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sonnet, two quatrains and two tercets
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chained rhyme ABBA
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couplet rhyme AABB
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alternating rhyme ABAB
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Detailed explanation-1: -An Italian stanzaic form, used most notably by Dante Alighieri in Commedia (The Divine Comedy), consisting of tercets with interwoven rhymes (ABA BCB DED EFE, and so on). A concluding couplet rhymes with the penultimate line of the last tercet.
Detailed explanation-2: -Terza rima is a rhyme scheme that uses tercets, or three-line stanzas, and a pattern of interlocking end rhymes, rhymes that occur at the ends of lines. This interlocking pattern is often describing using the following letters: aba bcb cdc ded and so on.
Detailed explanation-3: -Examples of Terza Rima. One of the most important examples of this rhyme scheme is Dante’s Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. This epic poem is divided into three sections, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Alighieri pioneered this rhyme scheme, and it is now intimately connected with his masterpiece.
Detailed explanation-4: -A four-line stanza, often with various rhyme schemes, including:-ABAC or ABCB (known as unbounded or ballad quatrain), as in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” or “Sadie and Maud” by Gwendolyn Brooks.-AABB (a double couplet); see A.E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young.”