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Piece of Whitman — it's essentially about poem
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sestina
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A sestina ( Old Occitan : cledisat ; also known as sestine , sextine , sextain ) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi . The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line ...
Usage examples of sestina.
Daisies, being among the simpler flowers, characteristically employ a rough sort of octosyllabic doggerel, but more evolved species, especially those in the tropics, can produce sestinas, rondeaux, and villanelles of the highest order.
His savage abuse and open ridicule of the neatly phrased rondeaux and sestinas and chansonettes of the little magazines was to her mind a wanton and uncalled-for cruelty.
In fact the epitome of literary grace is to address your enemy (publicly) in some difficult verse form, say the sestina, with every word dripping vitriol.