An echoing tercet repeats a sound or phrase from the first line in the third, as in Dante’s terza rima: “Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita / mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, / ché la diritta via era smarrita”; In Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind,” echoing tercets link stanzas: “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being… / Thou from whose unseen presence the leaves dead / Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing”; Another: “The river flows through the sleeping town— / silver under moonlight, cold and deep— / flows through the town, never slowing down”