Значения термина tercet на английском

That haiku-like tercet is succeeded by two small, ominous stanzas.

The tercet of the maidens is one of the loveliest pieces of music ever written.

When there are two verses the stanza is called a couplet; a three line stanza is called a tercet; a four line stanza, a quatrain.

The octave is made up of two quatrains and the sestet of two tercets.

My quatrains were tedious, and my tercets entirely too diffuse.

The octave is sometimes said to consist of two quatrains, and the sestet of two tercets.

Two groups of four and two of three are natural, two quatrains and two tercets if you prefer.

Read next another strictly Petrarchan sonnet, where the thought divisions of quatrains and tercets are marked with exceptional clearness, Eugene Lee-Hamilton's disillusioned "Sea-Shell Murmurs":