Sestina

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). ❋ Unknown (2007)

A sestina is a highly organized poem with 6 6-line stanzas. ❋ Stephanie (2008)

The sestina is a lot like a household as seen by a child. ❋ ITY National Archives (1998)

The Mona Liza is a sort of riddle, an acrostic, a poetical decoction, a ballade, a rondel, a villanelle or ballade with double burden, a sestina, that is what it is like, a sestina or chant royal. ❋ Unknown (1892)

Lassus’s older style is not completely absorbed by these novelties, and in a few pieces his earlier madrigals are recalled the sestina Quando il giorno. ❋ Lu (2009)

The strictures of the sonnet or villanelle or sestina drive you to see what can be done within those strictures. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You get the feeling that, like the villanelle or sestina, concrete poetry is now something that poets try their hand at as a demonstration of their virtuosity rather than a poetic tactic or affinity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, if, to validate an applied learning competency at the bachelor's level, an institution offered a project description in which a music student is asked to compose a song music and lyrics in the form of classic German leider and drawing on the Renaissance poetic form of a sestina, the assignment would match the competence and serve as valid assessment evidence. ❋ Daniel De Vise (2011)

This is my first sestina evar, so I will give myself points for it. ❋ Fastfwd (2009)

Poets behave badly, a Famous Poet once wrote to me after I complained about how another poet sent me a flurry of angry emails for rejecting his sestina. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Best line: The sestina “If See No End In Is” departs from the standard form in interesting ways. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In the sestina “If See No End In Is,” a speaker who is nearing death wonders why life is a double-bind: “… why what we love is/precluded always by something else we love, as if/each no we speak is yes, each yes no.” ❋ Unknown (2008)

Read the full sestina at www. poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem. html? id = 180058. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Their stories have a form, the inverted pyramid, that can be as rigid as that of a sestina. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Just because a person can enjoy a complex sestina or a deeply-rendered aubade doesn't mean he or she shouldn't be able to appreciate a well-crafted sonnet, free verse poem, or yes, even a limerick from time to time. ❋ Roger Sutton (2008)

Perhaps he should write an elegy to his former life, a sestina to cheating death. ❋ Cristina García (2010)

It's a science fiction story, funny and tragic, taking excellent advantage of the difficulties of the sestina form. ❋ Thucyken (2008)

Run, do not walk, to read thucyken's sestina over at sestina_week. ❋ Thucyken (2008)