consists of thirty-nine lines divided into six six-line stanzas and a three-line concluding stanza called an envoy.
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"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 difficult form of poetry to master
a form written in six six-line stanzas
an old, fixed form of poetry
a poem with six stanzas, with six words at the end of each sentence
A complicated verse structure of six 6-line stanzas all which share the same three pairs of rhyme-words appearing in a different order in each stanza.
One of the most difficult and complex of the various French forms, the sestina is a poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. It makes no use of the refrain. This form is usually unrhymed, the effect of rhyme being taken over by a fixed pattern of end-words which demands that these end-words in each stanza be the same, though arranged in a different sequence each time. Encyclopedia of poetry and poetics The Sestina Page Craft of Poetry Dave Henry: the sestina scheme
A poem which consists of six six-line stanzas and a final three line stanza (called an ENVOY), all unrhymed; the final word in each line of the first stanza becomes the final word in other stanzas (but in a different specified pattern); the final stanza uses these words again in a specified way, one in each half line. Example: In the diagram, each letter represents the terminal word of a verse and each line represents a stanza
an elaborate verse structure written in blank verse that consists of six stanzas of six lines each followed by a three-line stanza. The final words of each line in the first stanza appear in variable order in the next five stanzas, and are repeated in the middle and at the end of the three lines in the final stanza, as in Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina."
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 by Swinburne and Paysage Moralisé by Auden. However, some writers in English have also written rhymed sestina - see Sestina by Swinburne.
A sestina is a highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet (called its envoi or tornada), for a total of thirty-nine lines. The same set of six words ends the lines of each of the six-line stanzas, but in a different order each time; if we number the first stanza's lines 123456, then the words ending the second stanza's lines appear in the order 615243, then 364125, then 532614, then 451362, and finally 246531. These six words then appear in the tercet as well, with the tercet's first line usually containing 1 and 2, its second 3 and 4, and its third 5 and 6 (but other versions exist, described below).