SESTINA


Meaning of SESTINA in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ se-ˈstē-nə ]

noun

Etymology: Italian, from sesto sixth

Date: circa 1586

: a lyrical fixed form consisting of six 6-line usually unrhymed stanzas in which the end words of the first stanza recur as end words of the following five stanzas in a successively rotating order and as the middle and end words of the three verses of the concluding tercet

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