Whole-image three-line appears in haiku tradition, as in Bashō’s “Old pond / frog jumps in / sound of water,” where each line contributes to a unified sensory moment; in Sonia Sanchez’s “Haiku for Harriet Tubman,” three lines encapsulate courage and legacy; contemporary poet Robert Hass’s “Spring” uses “A man with a wheelbarrow / stops to smoke a cigarette. / The cherry blossoms fall” to fuse action, stillness, and nature; Lucille Clifton’s minimalist triads often form complete emotional images in three lines; Yusef Komunyakaa’s “Blackberries” opens with a whole-image tercet: “I’d been walking through the woods / when I came upon a patch of blackberries / ripe as blood.”