Which of the following poets used terza rima? select all that apply. boccaccio dante shelley wordsworth

The right answer is: Boccaccio, Dante, and Shelley.

Terza Rima is a poetic form that makes use of a three-line rhyme scheme. The three-line stanzas use the chain rhyme pattern ABA BCB CDC DED… This pattern will end with either a single line or couplet repeating the rhyme of the middle line of the last tercet. In English poetry, Tezra rima is usually written in iambic pentameter. It was first used by an Italian poet named Dante Alighieri (The divine comedy) in the late thirteenth century. He inspired other Italian poets such Giovanni Boccaccio (Amorosa Visione). And lately, it was used by  Percy Bysshe Shelley in their poetry “Ode to the West Wind”.

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