Tercet Poems

Tercets are 3 Lines of French style poetry with a-b-a rhyme patterns. There is no traditional meter required; however, many were done in tetrameter or pentameter.

Example: by Frank G. Poe, Jr.

Thanksgiving gone with the leaves of fall,

Snow packs the ground like a stuffed suitcase,

And on December 25^th, “Merry Christmas to all!”