What's A Sestina?

Hi folks, I finally managed to write a Sestina. My first ever might I add. Ok before I go on blabbering, I think I ought to educate you all on what exactly is a Sestina.

A Sestina is actually a fixed poetic 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 each of the lines of a concluding envoi in the form of a tercet. The usual ending word order for a sestina is as follows:

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If this sounds all Greek to you, the best way to understand a Sestina is to look at the end words of each line. Not to worry, I will be posting my Love Sestina real soon, so watch out for it ya.

So till my next post ya, its bye from Ganz.

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