rima
Example Sentences
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Although an occasional narrative experiment might disrupt the format, what makes “Law & Order” special is precisely the fact that it has one, like a sonnet, a sestina, or an ottava rima.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2022
Kendrick Lamar might be influenced by Dante’s terza rima verse form!
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2021
It’s written in rhymed triplets, a version of a form employed by the poets Chaucer and Dante called a terza rima.
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2020
And Dante’s “Inferno,” The Divine Comedy’s first section, was a shout, in terza rima, against a storm of religious and political turmoil in medieval Florence.
From Time ● Nov. 9, 2016
Longfellow made a translation in verse which is musical and cast in the terza rima of the original.
From Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch
