Triadic-line poetry or stepped line is a long line which "unfolds into three descending and indented parts".[1] Created by William Carlos Williams, it was his "solution to the problem of modern verse"[2] and later was also taken up by poets Charles Tomlinson and Thom Gunn.[3]
^Hirsch. Edward 'A Poet's Glossary', Houghton Mifflin Hsrcourt, Boston, 2014 ISBN9780151011957
^Berry Eleanor, 'William Carlos Williams: Triadic-line Verse - An Analysis of its Prosody' Twentieth Century Literature Fall 35.3 1989
^Schmidt, Michael, Lives of the Poets, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1998 ISBN978-0753807453