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Although an occasional narrative experiment might disrupt the format, what makes “Law & Order” special is precisely the fact that it has one, like a sonnet, a sestina, or an ottava rima.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2022

Kendrick Lamar might be influenced by Dante’s terza rima verse form!

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021

It’s written in rhymed triplets, a version of a form employed by the poets Chaucer and Dante called a terza rima.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2020

And Dante’s “Inferno,” The Divine Comedy’s first section, was a shout, in terza rima, against a storm of religious and political turmoil in medieval Florence.

From Time • Nov. 9, 2016

Ottava, ot-t�′v�, n. an octave.—Ottava rima, an Italian form of versification consisting of eight lines, the first six rhyming alternately, the last two forming a couplet—used by Byron in Don Juan.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various