Learn more about the form of poetry, the Terza Rima. This piece also contains an example poem that utilize this poetry form.

The Terza Rima an age old form that is based on syllables and a close linking rhyme scene. Many credit the creation of the Terza Rima to the poet Dante Alighieri.
Dante, an Italian poet who lived from 1265 – 1321 was credited the Terza Rima due to his use of it in Divina Commedia, a story of human life. Within this collection he had a hundred cantos which he modified from popular poetics of his time and molded it into the syllabic and closely rhymed form, the Terza Rima.

The Terza Rima has a line count of eleven syllables and a rhyme scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, dd.
This form as also been adapted into the Terza Rima Sonnet. It doesn’t differ much from the original, it has the same syllable count in each line but a slightly different line count and a rhyming scheme of aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee
Why not get creative and give them both a go?

Example.
Watching the waves roll in and out with no end
I lose myself in their effortless motion
Will they always be just a broken blend?

Fighting to contend in a perfect ocean?
Their timeless rhythm goes on into the night
Ebbing and flowing with faceless emotion

How is it that the moon can shine its light
With diamond skipping stars in cruel perfection
Upon a surface that seems more wrong than right?

The waves roll in and out in lost affection
As I marvel at it’s moonlit reflection.