Triplets
are groups of three lines of poetry that make stanzas that may have more
specific designations, such as tercets
or terza rima.
My
own preference (agreeing with Paul Fussell) would be to use "triplet" as
we do "couplet," to designate three lines with identical rhyme, and use
"tercet" for the generic three-line stanza with any--or no--rhyming pattern.
But the present consensus seems to choose otherwise.
I
Among
twenty snowy mountains
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
II
I
was of three minds
Like a tree
In which there are three blackbirds.
--Wallace Stevens
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