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| | SESTINA - LoveToKnow Article on SESTINA |
 | | The earliest sestina in English was publishedin 1877 by Mr Gosse; this was composed according to the archaic form of Arnaut Daniel. | | | In the De vulgari Eloquio, Dante admits that he copied the structure of his sestinas from Arnaut Daniel; et nos eum secuti sumus, he says, after praising the work of the Provenal poet. | | | In the I9th century an attempt was made, not without success, to compose German sestinas in dialogue, while the double sestina itself is not unknown in German literature. |
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http://71.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SESTINA.htm
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| | The Sestina Page |
| | Ye Goatherd Gods is referred to as a double sestina. | | | The Shrinking of Lonesome Sestina - Miller Williams | | | The explanation from Sestina (poetic term) indicates this pattern: |
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http://www.geocities.com/suzstina/sestina.htm
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| | Mark Scroggins on "Mantis" |
| | The poem aims to "record" neither a "sestina" nor a "mantis" but to embody a set of "facts" In the poet's mind, among which are his experience in the subway station, his firsthand or otherwise knowledge of the plight of the poor, and the poetic use-value of the sestina form. | | | Like Pound's "Sestina: Altaforte," "Mantis" is a sestina, a seven-stanza poem in a form invented by Dante's "miglior fabbro," the Troubadour Arnaut Daniel. | | | If one regards the sestina as a structural force, a formal principle like the sonata or the fugue rather than a fixed form like the sonnet (or the limerick), then one can, according to Zukofsky, write a sestina with the same emotional authenticity and immediacy that he ascribes to Dante. |
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http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/zukofsky/scroggins.htm
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| | Sestina |
| | The sestina was invented by the Provençal troubadour Arnaut Daniel and was used in Italy by Dante and Petrarch, after which it fell into disuse until revived by the 16th-century French Pléiade, particularly Pontus de Tyard. | | | Dante Alighieri put this man in hell for that he was a stirrer-up of strife. | | | The sestina is a French form, syllabic originally but often adapted to accentual-syllabic lines in English verse. |
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http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page9.html
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| | DANTE ALIGHIERI. “SESTINA. Of the Lady Pietra degli Scrovigni.” |
| | DGR used his copy of Fraticelli (1834) for the text of Dante's original sestina. | | | The order of the rhymes in Dante's sestina is known to have been carefully related to the sestina's content. | | | This double work centers in the only one of Dante's rime petrose that DGR translated, the great sestina “Al poco giorno e al gran cerchio d'ombra”. |
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http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/12d-1861.s237.raw.html
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| | The Academy of American Poets - Poetic Form: Sestina |
| | The thirty-nine-line form is attributed to Arnaut Daniel, the Provencal troubadour of the twelfth century. | | | Courtly love often was the theme of the troubadours, and this emphasis continued as the sestina migrated to Italy, where Dante and Petrarch practiced the form with great reverence for Daniel, who, as Petrarch said, was "the first among all others, great master of love." | | | Many twentieth-century poets have taken on the form, including Ezra Pound and John Ashbery. |
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http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/5792
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| | Poetry Form - The Sestina. |
| | Their name is from the French trobar, to "invent or make verse". | | | Just don't be lazy and cut lines short or run them on because you can't be bothered to fix your poem's problems. | | | Your attempt to write a formal poem may help you find words that you would not have found otherwise. |
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http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/sestina.htm
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| | How to Write a Sestina - eHow.com |
| | A traditional poetic form created by Arnaut Daniel, the sestina is made up of six six-line stanzas and a final three-line envoi. | | | When poets write sestinas, they tend to put the word "sestina" in the titles. | | | Add a second stanza using those words in a 6, 1, 5, 2, 4, 3 order. |
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http://www.ehow.com/how_16712_write-sestina.html
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| | Sestina - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | As an example of the way in which a sestina's end-words shift, below is a modern translation of the first two stanzas of a sestina by Dante Alighieri. | | | The oldest British example of the form is a double sestina, "You Goat-Herd Gods," written by Philip Sidney. | | | The 12th century Provençal troubadour Arnaut Daniel is credited with having invented the sestina form. |
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http://www.vacilando.org/_cliextra/baghdadmuseumorg/includepage.php?title=Sestine&action=edit
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| | [New-Poetry] A "doubled" sestina |
| | Its humble author is daunted by the prospect of having to work all twelve words (and especially the unwieldy trio of "Adventurous," "exuberant," and "northeast") into a mere three coherent lines. | | | East of Eden, poetry is still the best of man. Please excuse this (doubled) sestina its absent tercet. | | | But finding pleasant wisdom in Luther's admonition to "Trust God, and sin bravely," I indulged myself in answering this challenge posed in a personal ad: CHALLENGE: Incorporate these words into a sestina: Poetry, Fiction, Exuberant, Divorced, Worldly, Woman. |
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http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/pipermail/new-poetry/2001-April/002322.html
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| | McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Sestinas |
| | Send your sestina submissions to sestinas@mcsweeneys.net, and remember to put "sestina" in the subject line. | | | Sestina for Shappy, Who Doesn't Get Enough Love Poems | | | Any poem that is not a sestina will not be considered.] |
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http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sestinas
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| | Wordcarvers: Sestina? |
| | Although the rules are straightforward, I think the sestina is a form that is particularly demanding of the *theme* of the poem. | | | I went hunting for the history of the sestina because I wanted to know who invented it, and why. | | | Here's the definition of a sestina (from my favorite glossary at Bob's Byway again): |
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http://www.eosdev.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=3&post=4275
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| | Wordcarvers: Sestina |
| | The sestina form has been used successfully with humorous, whimsical, and serious subjects by poets such as Swinburne, Pound, Kipling, and Elizabeth Bishop. | | | I didn't realize until I saw it here that I had never saved that sestina. | | | (warning...bad, overly wordy sentimental poem ahead)," so it's kind of hard to tell it's a sestina by that. |
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http://www.eosdev.com/discus/messages/3/71.html?1029685744
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| | Guide to Verse Forms - Sestina |
| | And there are several sestinas by Leo Aylen in his book Dancing the Impossible. | | | This is a variation dealt with later.) No deviation from this order is tolerated. | | | Sestina of the Tramp Royal, by Rudyard Kipling. |
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http://www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com/vf/sestina.htm
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| | John Ashbery- This is a SESTINA, dammit! |
| | But, on reflection, I did overestimate my readership's poetic knowledge: haikus, sonnets are easy enough to descry- but a sestina is borderline. | | | I attempted to explain that my reason for doing so was the poem's poor adherence to the form's stricture and that it lent itself to my deformalizing. | | | But I did not buy Mike's alibi for Olive Oyl's soliloquy, which was mere filler for the form. |
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http://www.cosmoetica.com/TOP29-DES27.htm
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| | Sestina |
| | Notable sestinas have been written by Swinburne, Kipling, Pound and Auden, among others. | | | Used by Petrarch and Dante (who gave it its Italian name) in Italy, but little used in France & England until the 19th century. | | | The Sestina (Latin sextus=sixth): unrhymed pattern invented near the end of the 12th century by the famous Provençal troubadour Arnaud Daniel. |
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http://thewordshop.tripod.com/sestina.html
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| | mad kings and you, locked in a cell-that’s a sestina. | | | I swore, and swore I’d write a good sestina or else. | | | There are better ways to spend your time. |
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http://www.simmons.edu/trustman/sestina/sestin_sestina.html
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| | Velveteen Rabbi: Blog sestina |
| | Okay, clearly I'm not in the same league as the folks whose sestinas McSweeney's publishes (I'm just better at free verse) but that was fun to write. | | | If these are words I repeat, I reasoned, I should choose a poetic form that makes use of repeated words: why not a sestina? | | | Sestinas repeat six words, not ten, so four of the above terms didn't make it in -- I leave it to you to figure out which ones they are. |
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http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2005/08/blog_sestina.html
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| | Poem Online Poetry Community - 2002 Summer Workshop #6 - The Sestina |
| | I'm trying to use the cyclical, repetitive nature of the sestina to depict the way water circulates through a fountain... | | | In fact, this one has suggested a whole series of sestinas to me--hopefully, they'll actually get written. | | | At this point I'm inclined to abandon hope of making a poem of this one- I have two other poems I really should be working on, and not much time to write lately. |
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http://www.poem.org/poetry/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?board=workshop;action=display;num=1030303715
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| | Sestina |
| | The first six stanzas have six lines each ending word falling in a precise mathematical progression, the seventh stanza has only three lines which are a mathematical reflection of the first stanza. | | | It's Inventor Arnaut Daniel a mathematician and a poet belonged to a group of twelfth century French poets called the troubadours. | | | The sestina has always been considered a difficult form of poetry to master. |
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http://www.thepoetsgarret.com/2005Challenge/nin.html
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| | The Mediadrome - Poems of the Week: The Sestina |
| | Ye Goatherd Gods by Sir Phillip Sydney; and finally Sestina Otiosa by Sir Walter Christopher Raleigh. | | | Mark Strand and Eavan Boland, in The Making of a Poem, remark: | | | The sestina was part of the trobar clus. |
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http://www.themediadrome.com/content/articles/words_articles/poems_sestina.htm
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| | Elizabeth Bishop Comments about "Sestina" poetry archive plagiarist.com |
| | She describes to the reader how a grandmother’s love is so great that she would not care about her own suffering. | | | The “Sestina” by Elizabeth bishop is a formal verse of the sestina. | | | This “Sestina” by Elizabeth Bishop is about a grandmother who is going through a difficult time in her life and the grandson who lives with her. |
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http://plagiarist.com/poetry/3016/comments
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| | Sestina |
| | O Sestina, my love, at last I found you, my beauty! | | | And in the light I saw a glimpse of beauty, | | | Whilst writhed my mind in pain, longing for your love. |
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http://www.geocities.com/iyersk.geo/Sestina.htm
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| | witticism_here: Poetry, Prose, And Porn |
| | The second is a story I wrote about God. | | | And come it did, in torrents, like heartbeats | | | I can only say that I liken it to heavenly angel footfalls |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/witticism_here/2459.html
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| | Poetry, Sestina, Villanelle, Pantoum, Haiku, and Terza Rima |
| | Poetry is the common dialect of human passion, and no matter if it is written as a Sestina, Sonnet, Villanelle, Pantoum, Haiku, or Terza Rima, all bypass the ear, and with a single poetic verse or word, can speak face-to-face with the soul. | | | Poetry, Sestina, Villanelle, Pantoum, Haiku, and Terza Rima |
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http://www.angelfire.com/nv/Poetgirl
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| | minstrel: New Sestina- comments? |
| | (My epic work of frustration on the BoD crisis is over ten pages long, I think.) Being particularly mad, I decided only a sestina was complex enough to help me work it out. | | | A Prayer for the Kingdom and the King by Mar Yaakov HaMizrachi (A sestina) Have pity on the kingdom and the king When subjects fear to truely speak their heart. | | | Someone seriously proposed that it was treason to publically contradict the Prince when he got his facts wrong. |
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http://www.pbm.com/pipermail/minstrel/1996/000679.html
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| | Table of Forms—The Sestina |
| | The sestina can also be considered a phonetic form as the form specifies a metric structure in addition to the order of words that end lines. | | | Villatinaku: a sestina that is also a pantoum and villanelle. | | | Metasestina 2: a sestina which does not use a metric structure but which repeats line middles in counterpoint to line-ends. |
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http://www.spinelessbooks.com/table/forms/sestina.html
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| | Sestina |
| | The effect of the sestina is meditative and kaleidoscopic. | | | The Sestina Project is a visual equivalent of various sestinas by poets including John Ashbery, Honor Moore, Judith Kroll and her partner in the Sestina Project, Mary Pinard. | | | Strangely enough, The Sestina Project is not the only effort to consider this form in relation to the visual arts. |
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http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/anecdotes/page9.html
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| | Guide to Verse Forms - Sestina variations |
| | it's similar to a sestina, but has twelve keywords, twelve 12-line stanzas, and a 6-line tornada, making 150 lines in all. | | | This revision of the structure leaves the rhymed sestina relatively unappealing to group theorists or (presumably) bell-ringers. | | | The only example I have been able to find is, heaven help us, a rhymed double sestina, by Swinburne. |
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http://www.noggs.dsl.pipex.com/vf/sestinavar1.htm
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| | SESTINA - Online Information article about SESTINA |
| | 1199), who wrote many sestinas in the lingua di si. | | | SESTINA, one of the most elaborate forms of See also: | | | scheme on which the sestina is built was the invention of the See also: |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/SCY_SHA/SESTINA.html
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| | Sestina |
| | The sestina is a strict ordered form of poetry, dating back to twelfth century French troubadours. | | | This is the other sestina that's on the 'Net a lot. | | | This sestina is the example I've found most often on the 'Net. |
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http://web.mit.edu/people/thebeast/Poetry/Sestina
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| | Sestina's - The CHUD.COM Message Boards |
| | Technically it is free verse as it uses no rhyme and is usually (not always) without meter. | | | The sestina is the most convoluted format imaginable. | | | The CHUD.COM Message Boards > ARTS & LITERATURE > Paint, Clay, Ink, and Blood |
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http://www.chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=43487
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| | sestina (poetic term) |
| | This form is usually unrhymed, the effect of rhyme being taken over by a fixed pattern of end-words which demands that these end-words in each stanza be the same, though arranged in a different sequence each time. | | | One of the most difficult and complex of the various French forms, the sestina is a poem consisting of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy. | | | Yet it has been practiced with success in English by Swinburne, Kipling, and Auden. |
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http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sestina.html
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| | Welcome to WritingFix: Harder Formula Poem: Sestina |
| | A sestina is a 39-line poem with the very strictest of rules. | | | Ask writers to write their own ideas within a provided structure (like a sestina, for example) and suddenly ideas can be explored differently. | | | If you happen to like what you wrote doing this exercise, send it to us at publish@writingfix.com. |
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http://www.writingfix.com/leftbrain/sestina.htm
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| | ipedia.com: Refrain Article |
| | A refrain (from the Old French refraindre "to repeat," likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the "chorus" of a song. | | | However, the use of refrains is particularly associated with popular music, especially rock and roll, where the verse-chorus-verse song structure typically places a refrain in almost every song. | | | Poetic fixed forms that feature refrains include the villanelle, the virelay, and the sestina. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/refrain.html
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| | Blogcritics.org: The Sins of the Father: George Lucas's Star Wars Sestina |
| | Blogcritics.org: The Sins of the Father: George Lucas's Star Wars Sestina | | | The Sins of the Father: George Lucas's Star Wars Sestina | | | There is recurrence of action, successively rotating order of plot, and the conclusion feels much like the beginning. |
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http://blogcritics.org/archives/2005/07/31/072418.php
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| | NMJ: Island Sestina |
| | The finale is three lines, repeating the six words, and the six words must appear in designated order. | | | *A sestina is a form of poetry with very strict rules. | | | Island Sestina was written in 1988 and copyrighted in 1991 by Kathleen Firestone and appears in the upcoming The Fox Islands: North and South by Kathleen Craker Firestone. |
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http://www.leelanau.com/nmj/views/sestina.html
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| | 30 Days of Poetry-Day 28 |
| | Remember, it is the WORD that appears at the end of each line, NOT the entire line itself. | | | The last words of the first six lines occur in a definite pattern in all of the other stanzas. | | | A sestina has six unrhymed stanzas with six lines in each stanza. |
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http://www.msrogers.com/English2/poetry/30_days_of_poetryday_28.htm
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| | Writing Activity - Sestina |
| | Sestina is a form of free poetry that has six stanzas of six lines each. | | | The writer's hangout and discussion board, brought to you by Wordweave, Justwrite and The Write Connection. |
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http://inspired2write.com/wordweav/exers/sestina.html
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| | Skins |
| | A sestina is a strict poetic for comprised of six stanzas of iambic pentameter. | | | BUT...since my class wrote a good villanelle, I decided to try. | | | Oh...just what the blazes IS a sestina you ask? |
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http://www.thewateringhole.com/sestina.html
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| | The Cheese Sestina |
| | sestina on the topic of his or her choice. | | | In May, 1999, I said that the first person to find the hidden unicorn picture would get a | | | Well, one of my former students found the unicorns, and requested a sestina about cheese. |
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http://www.dougshaw.com/puzzles/cheese.html
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| | Sestina - Elizabeth Bishop - Poem by |
| | Comments about this poem (Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop) | | | Click here to write your comments about this poem (Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop) |
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http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poem=32628
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| | A sestina ends with a triplet containing all six words. | | | Copy the output from the lower frame into a word processor and type away. | | | It is permissible to take liberties in the placement of the words in these final lines. |
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http://tyz.com/FrameSestinaInput.html
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| | The Explicator: Bishop's 'Sestina.' (Elizabeth Bishop)@ HighBeam Research |
| | As the child of "Sestina" takes up her crayon to draw "a rigid house," the reader should not fail to imagine a similar... | | | Elizabeth Bishop's 'Sestina' shows the interaction between a child and her grandmother and how the grandmother's actions affect the child's creative activity. | | | The Explicator: Bishop's 'Sestina.' (Elizabeth Bishop)@ HighBeam Research |
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http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:14940633&refid=holomed_1
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| | Writer's Encyclopedia--Letter S |
| | The sestina's pattern of repetition uses the words that end the lines in the first stanza. | | | These words are used to end lines in the rest of the poem according to a set formula: | | | A form of lyric poetry composed of six six-line stanzas and one three-line envoi. |
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http://www.writersmarket.com/encyc/s.asp
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| | Sestina |
| | It has 39 lines with 6 stanzas of 6 lines each and a final stanza of 3 lines. | | | The sestina is a poem built on the number six. | | | Some sites to visit include: Island Sestina and Sestina. |
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http://www.webbschool.com/rhood/creativewriting/sestina.htm
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| | Sestina: Altaforte |
| | DayPoems: A Seven-Century Poetry Slam * Sestina: Altaforte lines of verse * www.daypoems.net * Timothy Bovee, editor | | | Poetry indexes by poet * by poem * poetry places * Webmasters: Feel free to link directly to individual poems. | | | Walking on the Boundaries of Change: Poems of Transition |
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http://www.daypoems.net/nodes/824.html
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