A sestina is a fixed verse form in which six end-words recur in a set order in six stanzas and a three-line envoi (a coda or postscript). From Wordnik.com. [2007 March 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
The sestina is a lot like a household as seen by a child. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks At Millennium Lecture Series] Reference
A sestina is a highly organized poem with 6 6-line stanzas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Although I remain awed by your sestina, so you know. From Wordnik.com. [seanan_mcguire: ROSEMARY AND RUE giveaway #5!] Reference
This is certainly a lot easier than writing a sestina. From Wordnik.com. [seanan_mcguire: ROSEMARY AND RUE giveaway #5!] Reference
Your crazy-face sestina also impresses me well beyond measure. From Wordnik.com. [seanan_mcguire: Shakespeare says...] Reference
I've also had ideas recently for a handful of sestina variants. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
This is my first sestina evar, so I will give myself points for it. From Wordnik.com. [Friday] Reference
I laughed, I cried, I wished I was creative enough to write a sestina. From Wordnik.com. [And We Have Winners] Reference
The sestina is composed of six 6-line stanzas and a final 3-line stanza. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
One of the worst things I've ever written was a sestina about Minesweeper. From Wordnik.com. [Just killing time] Reference
And a sestina by Kipling that he presumably put more than 15 minutes into. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-10-23] Reference
Forget about free verse until you understand the sestina and the villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [what i follow] Reference
Why might Garrison have written a sestina instead of, say, a sonnet or haiku?. From Wordnik.com. [2007 March 12 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
I have also been fiddling a bit with a poem that I think wants to be a sestina. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
Newspaper book-review pages are going the way of the sestina and the villanelle. From Wordnik.com. [Symposium] Reference
Perhaps he should write an elegy to his former life, a sestina to cheating death. From Wordnik.com. [The Lady Matador’s Hotel] Reference
If I had had more time, I would have written a shorter letter a sestina or pantoum. From Wordnik.com. [ccfinlay: And We Have Winners] Reference
Read the full sestina at www. poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem. html? id = 180058. From Wordnik.com. [2008 December 16 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Then I got Neil's response, which pretty much ended with, "And where's the sestina?". From Wordnik.com. [I hear the clock tick, and think of you] Reference
Their stories have a form, the inverted pyramid, that can be as rigid as that of a sestina. From Wordnik.com. [2006 October 24 « One-Minute Book Reviews] Reference
Tonight (Wednesday) I worked on a sestina and wrote maybe half of it, at Mama Ines, a local café. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
The conventions of a dictionary are as formal as those of a sestina, a minuet, or the architectural orders. From Wordnik.com. [A Tone-deaf Musical Dictionary] Reference
It's a science fiction story, funny and tragic, taking excellent advantage of the difficulties of the sestina form. From Wordnik.com. [June 9th, 2008] Reference
But I was desperate--and the class only required an attempt at a poem each week, and sestina week was giving me fits. From Wordnik.com. [Just killing time] Reference
Cada una presentó el mismo grado de dificultad, y de gozo, que presentaría la traducción de un soneto o de una sestina. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
In the sestina I posted the other day, all the 5 syllable lines should be indented, but I can't seem to make the post work right. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast in Bed] Reference
It's one thing in, for example, a course on playwriting, to insist that your students turn in something that is a play, and not a sestina. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-08-01] Reference
I always enjoyed the formal structure of some poetry, like the sestina. From Wordnik.com. [Blog Stage - Acting in Film, TV, Theatre - Backstage] Reference
"Altaforte," which is perhaps the best sestina that has been written in English. From Wordnik.com. [Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry] Reference
The poem (a sestina titled "Frankenstein's Assistant Gets a Letter") about Igor in. From Wordnik.com. [Publishers Weekly - Children's Books News] Reference
Tiel also wrote a sestina (just before the challenge was issued) called Cat Views. From Wordnik.com. [The Miss Rumphius Effect] Reference
The sestina only repeats words, but in a fixed six stanza form which can be quite intimidating. From Wordnik.com. [PoeWar] Reference
McGhee's story of the value of perseverance is lyrically told in a poetry form called a sestina. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
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