sestina
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Although an occasional narrative experiment might disrupt the format, what makes “Law & Order” special is precisely the fact that it has one, like a sonnet, a sestina, or an ottava rima.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2022
There aren’t strict rules for what is poetry unless you’re trying to adhere to a specific form like the sestina, haiku or limerick.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2021
The story’s structure resembles that of a sestina, the same elements — Jordan, Seinfeld, aluminum foil, Chore Boy and baking soda — recombining in different configurations throughout to dizzying effect.
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2021
At its best, whether in blank verse or in a 39-line sestina, his work was lyrical and bracing.
From Washington Post • Apr. 11, 2018
The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.
From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George
Vocabulary lists containing sestina
Academic and Literary Vocabulary, Unit 2
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Part 3 Literary Terms (Unit 6)
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