rima
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Clive James’s deft translation, published in 2013, restructures the work’s original terza rima into quatrains.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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
Jean Hollander, the author of several books of poetry, took on the translation of the verse — an already herculean task made more difficult by the challenge of re-creating Dante’s terza rima tercets in English.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 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
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
