terza rimaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌtɛːtsə ˈɹiːmə/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˌtɝtsə ˈɹimə/

名詞

terza rima (usually uncountable, 複数形 terze rime)

1. (poetry) An arrangement of triplets, generally in iambic pentameter in English, with rhyme scheme aba bcb cdc.
   • 1865, Dante Alighieri, “preface”, in John Dayman, transl., The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Translated in Terza Rima by John Dayman, page viii:

     In attempting to make the ‘Divina Commedia’ better known to English readers, it might have been held only a fitting mark of deference to my original to reproduce it, if practicable, in the metre of the poet's own choice. But on the appearance of my ‘Inferno,’ its Terza Rima was denounced as the one ‘deleterious ingredient’ which corrupted the version throughout, […]

関連する語

• ottava rima
• terzanelle

Further reading

• terza rima on Wikipedia.