单词 | sestina |
释义 | sestinan. Prosody. A poem of six six-line stanzas (with an envoy) in which the line-endings of the first stanza are repeated, but in different order, in the other five. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > lyric poem > [noun] > lyric of fixed verse form > sestina sestinea1586 sextine1598 sextain1616 sestina1838 1838 E. Guest Hist. Eng. Rhythms II. iv. v. 372 The Sestino~stave, invented by Arnaud Daniel, the Troubadour eulogised by Dante and Petrarch. 1845 Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 818/1 It was from the Provençal chanzo that the Italians derived their Sestina and Distichi.] 1878 A. C. Swinburne Poems & Ballads 2nd Ser. 60 The Complaint of Lisa. (Double Sestina.) 1880 Hueffer in Macmillan's Mag. Nov. 49 The sestina is a dangerous experiment, on which only poets of the first rank should venture. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 158 (title) Sestina of the tramp-royal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1838 |
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