Swinburne's Rhymed Sestina
| Type: | | Structure, Metrical Requirement, Rhyme Scheme Requirement, End Word
Requirement, Isosyllabic | | |
| Description: | | Algernon Charles Swinburne apparently thought that having a
sestina without rhyme was too easy, so he rhymed it so all verses would be ababab, and changed the folding to accommodate the rhyme. Algie was a nut with too
much time on his hands. | | |
| Attributed to: | | Algernon Charles Swinburne | | |
| Origin: | | English | | |
| Schematic: | | Rhyme: ababab
End-word Folding:
stanza 1: 123456
stanza 2: 614325
stanza 3: 561432
stanza 4: 256143
stanza 5: 321654
stanza 6: 432561
envoy: 1/4 2/3 5/6 | | |
| Rhythm/Stanza Length: | | 6 | | |
| Line/Poem Length: | | 39 | | |
| See Also: | | Bina, Decrina, French Rhymed Sestina, Ocarina, Quartina, Quintina, Rhymed Double Sestina, Sestina, Sidney's Double Sestina, Swinburne's Double
Sestina, Tritrina | | |
| Status: | | Incomplete | | |
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