Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity for response to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary conscious state. In contrast, nonstate theories see hypnosis as a form of imaginative role-enactment.
tercet. n. 1. (Poetry) a group of three lines of verse that rhyme together or are connected by rhyme with adjacent groups of three lines. [C16: from French, from Italian terzetto, diminutive of terzo third, from Latin tertius ].
Maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be.. --Man of La Mancha. The length of a stanza varies by poetic form and author inclination. Although there are many poetic forms that dictate a stanza of a certain length, stanzas in general are not limited by anything except what the author wants to do. Despite the fact that there is no set length for a stanza, there are words for stanzas of certain lengths. For instance, two-line stanzas are couplets, three-line stanzas are called tercets, and four-line stanzas are called quatrains.