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  2. Rule of three (writing) - Wikipedia

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    The technique is used not just in prose, but also in poetry, oral storytelling, films, and advertising. A tricolon is a more specific use of the rule of three where three words or phrases are equal in length and grammatical form. [6] A hendiatris is a figure of speech where three successive words are used to express a single central idea. [5]

  3. Tercet - Wikipedia

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    English-language haiku is an example of an unrhymed tercet poem. A poetic triplet is a tercet in which all three lines follow the same rhyme, AAA; triplets are rather rare; they are more customarily used sparingly in verse of heroic couplets or other couplet verse, to add extraordinary emphasis. [2]

  4. Repetition (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.

  5. I've Just Seen a Face - Wikipedia

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    "I've Just Seen a Face" is in the key of A major and is in 2/2 (). [20] [21] [note 3] The song begins with a ten measure intro. [20]Split into three phrases, [20] the intro uses triplets that are slower than the rest of the song to create a sense of acceleration, [23] reinforced by a shortened third phrase which quickens the first verse's arrival. [20]

  6. Contra dance form - Wikipedia

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    Triplets, which are "triple major" dances — the entire (major) set is three couples — are also rare. The triplet form is an adaption by Ted Sannella of the traditional English country dance triplet, using modern contra dance tempo and moves; he composed a first triplet in 1968 and more than 41 of his triplets have been published. [ 4 ]

  7. Frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    e is the most common letter in the English language, th is the most common bigram, and the is the most common trigram. This strongly suggests that X ~ t , L ~ h and I ~ e . The second most common letter in the cryptogram is E ; since the first and second most frequent letters in the English language, e and t are accounted for, Eve guesses that ...

  8. Rhyme scheme - Wikipedia

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    A rhyme scheme is the pattern of rhymes at the end of each line of a poem or song.It is usually referred to by using letters to indicate which lines rhyme; lines designated with the same letter all rhyme with each other.

  9. Tuplet - Wikipedia

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    The most common tuplet [9] is the triplet (German Triole, French triolet, Italian terzina or tripletta, Spanish tresillo).Whereas normally two quarter notes (crotchets) are the same duration as a half note (minim), three triplet quarter notes have that same duration, so the duration of a triplet quarter note is 2 ⁄ 3 the duration of a standard quarter note.