A Terza rima poem consists of three-line "tercets" of 10 or 11 syllables. These lines are woven into a rhyme scheme that requires the final word of the second line in one tercet to supply the rhyme for the first and third lines in the following tercet. The only time the form changes is at the end of the poem with a single line that rhymes with the second line of the final tercet.
The poetry scheme is typically written in iambic pentameter, and there are no limits to the number of lines the poem may have. Dante used terza rima in his Divine Comedy, so it's been said that the three-line stanza may allude to the Trinity.
Finding Myself in the Dark
Here in the blackness, all I see are shadows
Looming in spaces usually occupied
By daily schedules and repeat routine.
The darkness is eclipsed only by the sky
With just my eyes reflecting the moonlight
Relieved, content, peaceful, though wondering why.
How can freedom be real after this fight?
With the hole shrinking until I cannot stand
And I break, shatter, lose myself... until night.
Swirling through the hourglass full of sand
In the darkness and through the blackness of time
I feel my feet firmly solid as they land.
With just my eyes reflecting the moonlight
Relieved, content, peaceful, though wondering why.
How can freedom be real after this fight?
With the hole shrinking until I cannot stand
And I break, shatter, lose myself... until night.
Swirling through the hourglass full of sand
In the darkness and through the blackness of time
I feel my feet firmly solid as they land.
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