A limerick (/ˈlɪmərɪk/) is a form of verse, usually humorous and frequently rude, in five-line, predominantly anapestic trimeter with a strict rhyme scheme of AABBA, in which the first, second and fifth line rhyme, while the third and fourth lines are shorter and share a different rhyme.

Sestet. A six-line stanza, or the final six lines of a 14-line Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. A sestet refers only to the final portion of a sonnet, otherwise the six-line stanza is known as a sexain.

A seven-line stanza is known as a ‘septet. ‘ One specific type of septet which has been given a special name is the ‘rhyme royal.

Here are a few things to remember as you write:

1. Cinquain poems can be written about anything.
2. They are five lines long.
3. The syllable pattern is 2, 4, 6, 8, 2.
4. Brainstorm ideas first.
5. Count the syllables on your fingers.
6. “Center” your poem on the page.
7. Rhyme if you want to.
8. Have fun!

Terza rima, Italian verse form consisting of stanzas of three lines (tercets); the first and third lines rhyming with one another and the second rhyming with the first and third of the following tercet.

Examples

The terza rima is a poem, Italian in origin, composed of tercets woven into a complex rhyme scheme. The end-word of the second line in one tercet supplies the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet. Thus, the rhyme scheme (aba, bcb, cdc, ded) continues through to the final stanza or line.

The Divine Comedy

A verse form of Italian origin, written in lines of 10 or 11 syllables, in which the middle line of each tercet rhymes with the first and third lines of the following tercet.

Contrapasso is one of the few rules in Dante’s Inferno. It is the one “law of nature” that applies to hell, stating that for every sinner’s crime there must be an equal and fitting punishment. In Dante’s poem, punishments must arise from the crime itself, not from the damage it has caused” (paragraph 7).

Dante created contrapasso – the idea that divine punishment of the damned in Hell would mirror the sin being punished. Dante Alighieri was born in approximately 1265 in Florence to poor but noble parents.

contrapasso in a sentence

1. And really, that’s why’Contrapasso’concerns me.
2. Diana Glenn interprets the symbolism in Myrrha’s contrapasso as being that her sin is so unnatural and unlawful that she is forced to abandon human society and simultaneously she loses her identity.

The main themes in Dante’s Inferno are morality and divine justice, the soul’s journey, and the poet’s vocation.

Contrapasso is derived from the Latin words contra and patior, which mean “suffer the opposite.” Contrapasso refers to the punishment of souls in Dante’s Inferno, “by a process either resembling or contrasting with the sin itself.” A similar process occurs in the Purgatorio.