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Exploring Tercets: Unaccented and Accented Patterns in Poetry**

This text delves into the structure of tercets within poetry, highlighting the distinction between unaccented and accented syllable patterns. It discusses how the tercet can follow various rhythmic schemes, such as iambic and anapestic tetrameter, and emphasizes the application of these patterns in three-line stanzas. The exploration includes examples from renowned poets, illustrating the aesthetics of the terza rima form. This guide is perfect for poetry enthusiasts looking to deepen their understanding of rhythmic structures in tercets.

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Exploring Tercets: Unaccented and Accented Patterns in Poetry**

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  1. Poetic Rhythms The Tercet

  2. Unaccented/Accented Pattern • The Tercet comes in a rhythm pattern of a tetrameter which can be: • An iambic tetrameter • An Antiseptic tetrameter • Terza Rima

  3. Iambic Tetrameter Pattern • U / U / U / U / • U represents unstressed syllables, / represents stressed syllables • While Tetrameter is typically applied for four lines of poetry, it is also applied to the rhythm of a tercet (three line poetry)

  4. Anapestic Tetrameter Pattern • UU/UU/UU/UU/ • U represents unstressed syllables, / represents stressed syllables

  5. Terza Rima • Terza Rima employs the rhythm of Iambic Pentameter: 10 syllables per line; in a tercet 10 syllables per line, three lines • U / U / U / U / U / • U represents unstressed syllables, / represents stressed syllables

  6. Acquainted With the Night by Robert Frost I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain—and back in rain. I have outwalked the furthest city light.

  7. Blue by Tim Hessen I ate the angry bird, beautiful, blue. Fat squeal am I; green it seems, I love eggs. But now I eat birds small, blue yummy too!

  8. Tim Hessen Mrs. Patterson PD 1 APEngLIT 10 March 2011 "Tercet." The Online Writing Lab at Purdue (OWL). Purdue, 2012. Web. 10 Mar. 2012. <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/>.

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