Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a line arrangement in the complex projective plane ${{\mathbb{P}}^{2}}$, having the points of multiplicity $\ge \,3$ situated on two lines in $\mathcal{A}$, say ${{H}_{0}}$ and ${{H}_{\infty }}$. Then we show that the non-local irreducible components of the first resonance variety ${{\mathcal{R}}_{1}}(\mathcal{A})$ are 2-dimensional and correspond to parallelograms $P$ in ${{\mathbb{C}}^{2}}={{\mathbb{P}}^{2}}\text{ }\backslash \text{ }{{H}_{\infty }}$ whose sides are in $\mathcal{A}$ and for which ${{H}_{0}}$ is a diagonal.