Classical Chinese poetry forms rules, of this poetry form. It is most associated with the eight-line style, although the same rules basically apply to the curtailed form ("jueju") and the expanded form ("pailu"). A form of regulated verse with eight lines of five characters each. A form of regulated verse with eight lines of seven characters each. The curtailed form is sometimes referred to as a "quatrain" due to its requirement to consist of four lines. Basically, the "jueju" is a shortened version of the eight-line version, resulting in a verse form which can more challenging in terms of conveying a complete poem or
Tercet 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 ABA pattern and terza rima where the ABA pattern of a verse is continued in the next verse by making