Sestina
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, End Word Requirement,
Isosyllabic | | |
| Description: | | A poem with six six-line verses and a three-line envoy.
There are only six ending words in a sestina which are shuffled in each verse in a specific pattern. The lines should all be of a single
length. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Arnaut Daniel | | |
| Origin: | | French/Occitan | | |
| Schematic: | | 123456
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Envoy either 531 or 135.
The envoy also contains the other end words embedded in the lines (246). | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 6 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 39 | | |
| See Also: | | Bina, Decrina, Envoy, French Rhymed Sestina, Newman Sestina, Ocarina, Quartina, Quintina, Rhymed Double Sestina, Sidney's Double Sestina,
Swinburne's Double Sestina, Swinburne's Rhymed Sestina, Tritrina | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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