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Definition of the day : « sestina »
- As in poem : noun highly expressive, rhythmical literary piece
- As in poesy : noun poem
- The sestina is composed of six 6-line stanzas and a final 3-line stanza.
- Extract from : « The Principles of English Versification » by Paull Franklin Baum
- Naught else have I afforded you, madame, save very anciently a Sestina.
- Extract from : « Chivalry » by James Branch Cabell
- From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima.
- Extract from : « The Principles of English Versification » by Paull Franklin Baum
- The common form of the sestina has six stanzas of six lines each, with a tercet at the end.
- Extract from : « English Verse » by Raymond MacDonald Alden, Ph.D.
- That it was used and admired by Dante and Petrarch, alone gives the sestina a royal precedence over all of the other forms.
- Extract from : « Ballades and Rondeaus, Chants Royal, Sestinas, Villanelles, etc, » by Various
- The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.
- Extract from : « The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory » by George Saintsbury