Definitions for "Sestina"
Keywords:  stanza, envoy, unrhymed, poem, verse
consists of thirty-nine lines divided into six six-line stanzas and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy.
Combination of the roulette that risks two files from three consecutive
"song of sixes," a medieval verse form of six six-line stanzas, in which the poet repeats six end-words in a prescribed order, reintroducing the six repeated words (in any order) in a closing three line envoy.
a tremendously complicated form to define, though not nearly as hard to do as it sounds
Keywords:  obscure, middle, ages, dates, back
a somewhat obscure form that dates back to the Middle Ages