Yet this must be attempted; for Shelley is the only English poet who has successfully handled that most difficult of metres, terza rima.
It is not without perplexity that an ear unaccustomed to the windings of the terza rima, feels its way among them.
The second piece, Filena, runs to four acts, and has lyrical songs introduced into the terza rima.
They are commonly of an allegorical nature, containing allusions to real persons, and are for the most part composed in terza rima, diversified in the more complex examples by the introduction of octaves and lyrical measures[372].
The piece is written in a mixture of ottava and terza rima, with a variety of lyrics introduced.
They are composed, like some of Sâ de Miranda's, in the short measures more natural to the language than the terza rima and intricate stanzas of the Italianizing poets.
It turns out, however, to be a decidedly primitive composition in terza rima, with a certain slightly satirical colouring[381].
The portion before the canzone is in terza rima; that after it, like the prologue, in octaves.
The play, composed for the most part in octaves with choruses in terza rima, is, from the dramatic point of view, open to obvious and fatal objections.
So far the eclogues have all been in Sannazzaro's terza rima.
What has been the development of this third life of Rome--la terza vita, as Terenzio Mamiani has been pleased to style it--in this its primal stage?
At the opposite extreme from the prose versions are those that have been made into terza rima.
Still, however slight the advantage be, it is nevertheless an advantage to have preserved the terza rima; but this gain is more than overcome by the Dantesque quality of the style in Parsons's version.
How much, we may ask, does not the poetry of Dante, for instance, lose, by being despoiled of that great source of its peculiar effect springing from the employment of the terza rima!
It is in vain to say, that it is enormously difficult to produce theterza rima in English.
To translate the "gran padre Alighier" into English worthily, the terza rima must be employed, whatever be the obstacles presented by the dissimilarities existing between the Italian and English languages.
The latter is a musical eclogue in terza rima; the former a discursive love-poem, with allegorical episodes, in octave stanzas.
The libretti were composed in octave stanzas, with passages of terza rima, and were sung to a recitative air.
We still possess their compositions in octave stanzas, terza rima, sapphics, hexameters and lyric strophes.
Thus Cellini wrote his poem called I Carceri in terza rima, and Giovanni Santi used it for his precious but unpoetical Chronicle of Italian affairs.
They consist of Elegies, Capitoli, and an Eclogue composed in terza rima, with Canzoni, Sonnets, and Madrigals of the type made obligatory by Petrarch.
Terza rima seems to be suggested by the sonnet of the Sparviere; while a perfect sonnet, differing very little either in structure or in diction from the type of Petrarch's, is supplied in Piero delle Vigne's Perocche amore.
We have abundant examples of both kinds in lyric measures and also in octave stanzas and terza rima.
Besides the difficulty of the terza rima, it is a metre not very well suited to the genius of the English language.
In the original this Canto is written in terza rima as follows.
Not to mention the attempt to write in asclepiads and other classical rhythms, we might point to Sidney's terza rima, poems with sdrucciolo or treble rhymes.
The terza rima has never been quite naturalized in our language.
His version is in the terza rima, a difficult thing to manage in English, and he succeeds in making a good English poem, a shade finer than a mere tour de force.
In order to show the terza rima in English and to suggest (not to solve!
The terza rima remains artificial and foreign, peculiarly Italian and more peculiarly Dante; he made it his own and moved at ease in its exacting rigidities.
Following the precedent of Boccaccio, it is in terza rima, a metre better suited to a series of narratives and descriptions than to a subject in which the lyrical element preponderates.
The poem in terza rima, on Lorenzo’s death, printed in the edition of his Italian poems published at Florence in 1814, from a Riccardi MS.
It is enough to notice a chronicle of Arezzo in terza rima by Gorello de' Sinigardi, and the history, also in terza rima, of the journey of Pope Alexander III.
One after another these nymphs tell their amorous adventures, and each closes her account with a song in terza rima.
Terza rima keeps the attention suspended too long, keeps it ever on the stretch for something that is to come, and never does come, until at the end of the canto, namely, the last rhyme.
The terza rima--already in use--Dante adopted as suitable to continuous narrative.
Whether stanzas, strictly speaking, or not, shall we say our mind frankly about theterza rima?
Can the terza rima, as used by Dante, be called a stanza?
He nowhere employs Boccaccio's ottava rima, and only once attempted a short piece in Dante's terza rima, in the Compleint to his Lady.
In particular, it is difficult to see how any other poet of that age could have known anything about Dante's terza rima.
We have only a few lines of terza rima, in the Compleint to his Lady; see vol.
Yet this must be attempted; for Shelley is the only English poet who has successfully handled that most difficult of metres, terza rima.
It is not without perplexity that an ear unaccustomed to the windings of the terza rima, feels its way among them.
He introduced the rhyme in alternate lines (Terza rima in sonnet form), by which he produced a musical cadence.
The similar safeguard of Dante's terza rima will occur to every student.
The sonnet, theterza rima and any other form used by Dante are of Provençal origin.
In this poem, the first in which Browning has used the terza rima, he observes, with only occasional licence, the proper pause at the end of each stanza of three lines.
The Statue and the Bust (one of Browning's best narratives) is a romantic and mainly true tale, written in terza rima, but in short lines.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "terza" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
