1) It has a tercet 2) Lyrical form 3) Occitan literary genre 4) Poem form 5) Poetic form 6) Poetic form used by Swinburne 7) Poetic form 8) Provencal verse 9) Six-line verse form 10) Six-stanza poem 11) Six-stanza verse form 12) Verse form used by dante
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A sestina (Old Occitan: cledisat klediˈzat; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern. The invention of the ...
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a poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, where the words ending the lines of the first stanza are repeated in a different order at the end of lines in each of the subsequent five stanzas and, two to a line, in the middle and at the end of the three lines in the closing envoy. The patterns of word-repetitions are as follows:...
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(from the article `Krenek, Ernst`) Krenek experimented widely with styles and techniques of composition. In Sestina (1957) he used total serialization, in which not only pitch but all ...
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elaborate verse form employed by medieval Provençal and Italian, and occasional modern, poets. It consists, in its pure medieval form, of six ... [1 related articles]
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A poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, where the words ending the lines o
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Usually an unrhymed poem consisting of six stanzas made up of six lines each. The sestina employs word repetition rather than rhyme. The last word of each line in the first stanza is repeated in a different order in the following five stanzas. This form was invented by the troubadour poet Arnaud Daniel. Examples of sestina include Complaint of Lisa...
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