rispetto

Updated: June 3, 2025

That is to say, the first part of the rispetto consists of four or six lines with alternate rhymes, while one or more couplets, called the ripresa, complete the poem. The stornello, or ritournelle, never exceeds three lines, and owes its name to the return which it makes at the end of the last line to the rhyme given by the emphatic word of the first.

John Addington Symonds - Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series