(1) To analyze a sonnet into quatrains and tercets is to recognize it as a sonnet, and so to relate it to a conventional lyrical category.(2) He compiles a list of expressions to designate this double object and devotes the sonnet's tercets to its description.(3) But instead of following the never-ending spiral of an apple peel, the story is delimited by closed circularity: it begins with the last tercets and closes with the first quatrains of a sonnet.(4) Another recurrent prosodic trait in this book is the repetition of tercets .(5) Both albums are rife with lyrical references to rolling hills, trees, creeks, dirty knees and breezes, and delivered in direct couplets or simply rhymed tercets .
