Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Associated Concepts Facet
3. Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)
4. [concepts in the arts and humanities]
5. [genres in literature and performing arts]
6. [genres for literature]
7. [poetry and poems]
8. poems
9. [poems by form]

Anotations

Scope note:

A form of iambic verse that consists of sets of three lines in which the middle line of each set rhymes with the first and last lines of the succeeding line. The series ends with a line that rhymes with the second line of the last stanza. Terza rima is in the following format: a b a, b c b, c d c, . . ., y z y, z. The first use is attributed to Dante's 'Divina Commedia.'