Tercets

Tercets or triplets are poems with at least one set of three lines, often using end line rhymes, though a tercet can use multiple three-line sets.

Here’s a Grandkid’s Tercet:

School

By Winston Sandeno

I’m slow as a slug in the morning

I think about how school’s so boring

Just think, I could spend more time snoring

I think, “Wouldn’t it be so great

If we could sleep in until eight”

I’m sure the headmaster could relate

Winston Sandeno was a student in Gerrit Hansen’s Seventh Grade English Class in 2023. It isn’t clear if Hansen is the headmaster who “could relate” to wanting to “sleep in until eight.”

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