Tercet in the 16th century. It was employed by Shelley and is the form used in Byron's "The Prophecy of Dante". Tercet A tercet is composed of three lines of poetry, forming a stanza or a complete poem. English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, AAA; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis. Other types of tercet include an enclosed tercet where the lines rhyme in an
A Question (poem) A Question (poem) "A Question" is a poem by Robert Frost, first published in 1942 in "A Witness Tree". <poem> A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth. </poem> While it is not long, many different interpretations exist for this poem. Many think that this poem stands for one's reflection on their past life. The poem questions whether you valued your life over death or, worse, never having been born. Did you in fact see life for all of its