terza rima
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Terza rima is an Italian verse form composed of interlocking three-line stanzas with a characteristic chain rhyme scheme, famously used by Dante in the Divine Comedy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| terza rima canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T896693 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: terza rima Context triple: [Divine Comedy, metre, terza rima]
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A.
Spenserian stanza
A Spenserian stanza is a nine-line poetic form with a specific rhyme scheme and meter, famously used by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queene" and later adopted by Romantic poets.
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B.
La Fornarina
La Fornarina is a famous Renaissance portrait painting by Raphael, believed to depict his lover and celebrated for its sensuality and enigmatic subject.
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C.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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D.
The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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E.
Rimas
Rimas is a collection of lyric poems by the Portuguese Renaissance poet Luís de Camões, showcasing his mastery of sonnets and other poetic forms.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: terza rima Target entity description: Terza rima is an Italian verse form composed of interlocking three-line stanzas with a characteristic chain rhyme scheme, famously used by Dante in the Divine Comedy.
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A.
Spenserian stanza
A Spenserian stanza is a nine-line poetic form with a specific rhyme scheme and meter, famously used by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queene" and later adopted by Romantic poets.
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B.
La Fornarina
La Fornarina is a famous Renaissance portrait painting by Raphael, believed to depict his lover and celebrated for its sensuality and enigmatic subject.
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C.
The Progress of Poesy
The Progress of Poesy is an 18th-century Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray that celebrates the power and evolution of poetry from ancient Greece to modern times.
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D.
The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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E.
Rimas
Rimas is a collection of lyric poems by the Portuguese Renaissance poet Luís de Camões, showcasing his mastery of sonnets and other poetic forms.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
poetic form
ⓘ
verse form ⓘ |
| canEndWith |
rhyming couplet
ⓘ
single line ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Italian poetry forms
ⓘ
rhymed verse forms ⓘ stanzaic forms ⓘ |
| hasFeature | chain rhyme scheme ⓘ |
| hasFormalConstraint | continuous interlocking rhyme across stanzas ⓘ |
| hasFunctionInDivineComedy |
creating forward rhythmic momentum
ⓘ
organizing large-scale narrative ⓘ |
| hasLineCountPerStanza | 3 ⓘ |
| hasNameEtymology | Italian for "third rhyme" ⓘ |
| hasNotableUser |
Geoffrey Chaucer
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Lord Byron ⓘ Percy Bysshe Shelley ⓘ Robert Frost ⓘ T. S. Eliot ⓘ W. H. Auden ⓘ |
| hasRhymePattern |
first and third lines of each tercet rhyme
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second line of each tercet rhymes with first and third lines of next tercet ⓘ |
| hasRhymeScheme | aba bcb cdc ded ... ⓘ |
| hasStructure | interlocking three-line stanzas ⓘ |
| influenced |
English narrative verse
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Romantic poetry ⓘ |
| influencedBy | earlier Italian lyric traditions ⓘ |
| isAssociatedWithPeriod |
Renaissance
ⓘ
surface form:
Italian Renaissance
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| isCentralToWork | Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy ⓘ |
| isDifficultInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| isFamouslyUsedBy | Dante Alighieri ⓘ |
| isFamouslyUsedIn |
Divine Comedy
ⓘ
surface form:
The Divine Comedy
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| isRelatedTo |
ottava rima
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sonnet ⓘ tercet ⓘ |
| isTaughtIn |
Italian literature courses
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poetics ⓘ prosody ⓘ |
| isUsedFor |
didactic poetry
ⓘ
meditative poetry ⓘ narrative poetry ⓘ |
| isUsedIn |
allegorical poetry
ⓘ
epic poetry ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Italian ⓘ |
| reasonForDifficultyInEnglish | relative scarcity of rhymes ⓘ |
| typicalMeterInEnglish | iambic pentameter ⓘ |
| typicalMeterInItalian | hendecasyllabic line ⓘ |
| usesStanzaType | tercet ⓘ |
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Subject: terza rima Description of subject: Terza rima is an Italian verse form composed of interlocking three-line stanzas with a characteristic chain rhyme scheme, famously used by Dante in the Divine Comedy.
Referenced by (1)
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subject surface form:
Divine Comedy