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Poetry > Sestina
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Sestina Defined
A fixed form consisting of six 6-line (usually unrhymed) stanzas in which the end words of the first stanza recur as end words of the following five stanzas in a successively rotating order and as the middle and end words of each of the lines of a concluding envoi in the form of a tercet. The usual ending word order for a sestina is as follows:
First stanza, 1- 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6
Second stanza, 6 - 1 - 5 - 2 - 4 - 3
Third stanza, 3 - 6 - 4 - 1 - 2 - 5
Fourth stanza, 5 - 3 - 2 - 6 - 1 - 4
Fifth stanza, 4 - 5 - 1 - 3 - 6 - 2
Sixth stanza, 2 - 4 - 6 - 5 - 3 - 1
Concluding tercet:
middle of first line - 2, end of first line - 5
middle of second line - 4, end of second line - 3
middle if third line - 6, end of third line - 1
The poem, "Will's Place," is an example of a sestina.
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- Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
- A Miracle for Breakfast - Elizabeth Bishop
- Two Lorries by Seamus Heaney - Poetry Archive
- Sestina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tue Aug 12
- Sestinas: Browse, or Build Your Own: I made this page because I can never remember the order of lines in a sestina. You can use it to generate a template for your own sestinas
- McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Sestinas: lots of them
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- Velveteen Rabbi: Sestina on impending departure: PREPARING TO LEAVE JERUSALEM: Across the stone city, prayers sound. I won't forget what I've harvested this time. Holy One of Blessing, let me bring light.
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