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‖ sestina Pros.|sɛˈstiːnə|
Also erron. sestino.
[It., f. sesto sixth.]
A poem of six six-line stanzas (with an envoy) in which the line-endings of the first stanza are repeated, but in different order, in the other five.
1838Guest Engl. Rhythms iv. v. II. 372 The Sestino⁓stave, invented by Arnaud Daniel, the Troubadour eulogised by Dante and Petrarch. [1845Encycl. Metrop. XXV. 818/1 It was from the Provençal chanzo that the Italians derived their Sestina and Distichi.] 1878Swinburne Poems & Ball. Ser. ii. 60 The Complaint of Lisa. (Double Sestina.) 1880Hueffer in Macm. Mag. Nov. 49 The sestina is a dangerous experiment, on which only poets of the first rank should venture. 1896Kipling Seven Seas 158 (title) Sestina of the tramp-royal. |