Terzanelle

A Terzanelle is as poetic form the result of the combination of the villanelle and terza rima. It comprises a total of nineteen lines: five tercets followed by a quartet. A rarer form of Terzanelle comprises a total of forty lines consisting of twelve trios and a final quartet. Has its origin this poem in 1964 or 1965 in the experimentation of the author Lewis Turco, whose result was the work Terzanelle in Thunder Weather. It was first published in July 1965 under the title Terzanelle at The Michigan Quarterly Review, volume IV, number 3, and as a debut release of the most famous of its kind

The following figure illustrates the structure and rhyme scheme of the more common variant of Terzanelle:

Verse 1 ( a) Verse 2 ( b ) Verse 3 ( a) Verse 4 (b) Verse 5 ( c ) Verse 2 ( b ) Verse 6 ( c ) Verse 7 (d) Verse 5 ( c ) Verse 8 (d) Verse 9 (e) Verse 7 (d) Verse 10 (e) Verse 11 (f) Verse 9 (e) Verse 12 (f) Verse 1 ( a) Verse 11 (f) Verse 3 ( a)

It will be noted that this form of Terzanelle has a striking regularity in the trios: the center line of a verse is always the last of the following. The final quartet consists of a new line, and the total first, eleventh, and third line.

The meter of Terzanelle is the fünfhebige iambic with a predominantly female cadence.

As the Quartet at the end of Terzanelle of great importance for the Conclusion of the work and the mediation of the intention of the author, it is designed so that the included lines convey equally well to the context of the previous verses and form the Conclusion of the desired effect.

The challenge when writing a Terzanelle is to provide a coherent and meaningful content resulting text to bring despite the many Versrepetitionen down while holding on to the remaining formal specifications. However, these are not necessarily observed in the present time in all strictness. There are already works of various Internet - poet, in which the verses are seven instead fünfhebig and do not always have female cadences.