The tercet also forms part of the villanelle, where the initial five stanzas are tercets, followed by a concluding quatrain.

A tercet also ends sestinas where the keywords of the lines before are repeated in a highly ordered form.

Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an a b a pattern and terza rima where the a b a pattern of a verse is continued in the next verse by making the outer lines of the next stanza rhyme with the central line of the preceding stanza, b c b, as in the terza rima or terzina form of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.

In traditional English-language poems, stanzas can be identified and grouped together because they share a rhyme scheme or a fixed number of lines ( as in distich / couplet, tercet, quatrain, cinquain / quintain, sestet ).

* Sestina: ABCDEF FAEBDC CFDABE ECBFAD DEACFB BDFECA, the seventh stanza is a tercet where line 1 has A in it but ends with D, line 2 has B in it but ends with E, line 3 has C in it but ends with F

A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, a a a ; triplets are rather rare ; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis.

There is no limit to the number of lines, but poems or sections of poems written in terza rima end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the final tercet.

The tercet benefits from Dante's terza rima ( compare the Divina Commedia ), the quatrains prefer the ABBA-ABBA to the ABAB-ABAB scheme of the Sicilians.

Thus a collection of two lines is a couplet ( or distich ), three lines a triplet ( or tercet ), four lines a quatrain, and so on.

The sestina is composed of six stanzas of six lines ( sixains ), followed by a stanza of three lines ( a tercet ).

A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem.

English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem.

Louis Ratisbonne's most important work was a verse translation of the La Divina Commedia ( The Divine Comedy ), in which the original is rendered tercet by tercet into French.

Recognizing that the Rule of Law is `` a dynamic concept which should be employed not only to safeguard the civil and political rights of the individual in a free society '', the Congress asserted that it also included the responsibility `` to establish social, economic, educational and cultural conditions under which his legitimate aspirations and dignity may be realized ''.

The answers derived by these means may determine not only the temporal organization of the dance but also its spatial design, special slips designating the location on the stage where the movement is to be performed.

Yet, after Rousseau had given the social contract a new twist with his notion of the General Will, the same philosophy, it may be said, became the idea source of the French Revolution also.

That, however, may also bring the police, if the thinking does not meet with social approval.

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

He may also consider ideas.

We may also recognize cases in which the poets have influenced the philosophers and even indirectly the scientists.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

A slow and painful trend toward unification has taken hold, a trend which may at any time be arrested and reversed but which may also lead to a binding federation of Europe.

The defect of these proposals is in their attempt to outrun history and their assumption that because something may be desirable it is also possible.

Perhaps, as Mr. Freeman says, American agriculture may stop the Communists, but it is also swindling the American taxpayer.

and also that they may have 5 legislative days in which to extend their remarks.

An outdoor, aboveground fallout shelter also may be built with concrete blocks.

No corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.

The return for a decedent may also serve as a claim for refund of an overpayment of tax.

If your child is under 19 or is a student you may also claim an exemption for him if he qualifies as your dependent, even though he earns $600 or more.

Since you contributed more than half of his support, you may also claim an exemption for him on your return.

While this may well be true in general, I believe it is also important to keep in mind that some recent developments suggest that over the next year or so military electronics may be one of the most strongly growing areas in an economy which is not expanding rapidly in other directions.

Outboard motors, insurance, and boat repairs may also be financed in the same way as boats.

Boatyards which also provide some of the above facilities may rightfully be called marinas.

It may be true that pool lighting dramatizes an evening scene, but lights also attract all the insect life for miles around.

A site may also be attractive just through the beauty of its trees and shrubs.

It may also work in one other way -- by licensing its system patents and supplying the meters, letting the oil company or even the builder install the facilities.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

This form may be obtained from the local office of your district director.

Or, equally often, a concretistic-seeming, particularistic-seeming statement may consist, with its mundane exterior, in a form of poetry -- may be full of meaning and emotion when interpreted as a figurative expression: a metaphor, a smile, an allegory, or some other symbolic mode of speaking.

The following items may be specified in actual or symbolic form in the operands of those instructions which refer to the particular items: channel, unit, combined channel and unit, combined arm and file, unit record synchronizers, inquiry synchronizers, and alteration switches.

The initial setting of this table may be altered, however, as described in the 7070/7074 Data Processing System Bulletin `` IBM 7070/7074 Compiler System: Operating Procedure '', form Aj.

The equally ardent proponent of freedom from any kind of censorship may find the nude human form the `` natural, honest, free expression of man's spirit and the epitome of beauty and inspiration ''.

If communication with an entity on the `` other side '' is taking place, this too may assume the form of clairvoyant symbolism.

Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.

The TAI form may be denoted TAI ( NPL ).

Some argue that no act of sharing, helping or sacrificing can be described as truly altruistic, as the actor may receive an intrinsic reward in the form of personal gratification.

The Hittite testimony reflects an early form, which may also be surmised from comparison of Cypriot Απειλων with Doric Απελλων.

The eggs may be deposited singly or in small groups, or may take the form of spherical egg masses, rafts or long strings.

A clicking sound sometimes produced by caecilians may be a means of orientation, as in bats, or a form of communication.

It is generally contrasted with vagueness, in that specific and distinct interpretations are permitted ( although some may not be immediately apparent ), whereas with information that is vague it is difficult to form any interpretation at the desired level of specificity.

They are more or less rhizomatous, with spiral leaves and an inflorescence that may form a raceme or a spike.

In others, pollination occurs underwater where pollen may form elongated strands, increasing chance of success.

Vowels are written through modification of these consonant letters, either by means of diacritics ( which may not follow the direction of writing the letters ) or by changes in the form of the letter itself.

These provinces may take the form of national churches ( such as in Canada, Uganda, or Japan ) or a collection of nations ( such as the West Indies, Central Africa, or Southeast Asia ).

In its pathological form, spiritual anxiety may tend to " drive the person toward the creation of certitude in systems of meaning which are supported by tradition and authority " even though such " undoubted certitude is not built on the rock of reality ".