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Definition of sestina in English: sestinanoun sɛˈstiːnəsɛˈstinə Prosody A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line ends in six different sequences. Example sentencesExamples - We'll be doing sestinas by the end of the week at this rate.
- We might at first imagine it as the sestina's final cathartic pinnacle.
- We don't get much form poetry, and we haven't had a sestina in at least four years.
- The book abounds with sonnets, villanelles, a pantoum, sonatinas (he is also a musician) and what in my opinion is the most difficult of forms, sestinas.
- What about writing sonnets and sestinas and villanelles?
Origin Mid 19th century: from Italian, from sesto (see sestet). Definition of sestina in US English: sestinanounsɛˈstinəseˈstēnə Prosody A poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line-ends in six different sequences that follow a fixed pattern, and with all six words appearing in the closing three-line envoi. Example sentencesExamples - We might at first imagine it as the sestina's final cathartic pinnacle.
- What about writing sonnets and sestinas and villanelles?
- We'll be doing sestinas by the end of the week at this rate.
- The book abounds with sonnets, villanelles, a pantoum, sonatinas (he is also a musician) and what in my opinion is the most difficult of forms, sestinas.
- We don't get much form poetry, and we haven't had a sestina in at least four years.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Italian, from sesto (see sestet). |