Jean Hollander, the author of several books of poetry, took on the translation of the verse — an already herculean task made more difficult by the challenge of re-creating Dante’s terza rima tercets in English. From Washington Post A fixed form of nineteen lines: five tercets, a concludi...
[French, from Italian terzetto, from diminutive of terzo, third, from Latin tertius; see trei- in Indo-European roots.] Support Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word tercet. Examples Fisher arranges the lines into 6 couplets and a tercet, a variation on...