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The Equiliteral Tercet

April 15th, 2018 · No Comments

Another new verse form: the equiliteral tercet. Like its geometrical model, the equilateral triangle, it’s composed of three equal parts: three lines of three words, each with three letters. It need not rhyme, but these three examples do:

Old men say
Now it’s day
Cut the hay

Sty for pig
Fly for fig
Tie for gig

Did our cow
Get ill now
Why and how

(Posted by Doug Skinner)

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