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 is a trifle too long to quote, but one of the best and sanest examples is to be found in Kipling’s Seven Seas—“The Sestina of the Tramp Royal.”
From Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers by Winslow, Horatio
Just as sonnets, sestinas, and haiku follow patterns of lines, so do visual compositions.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
McSweeney is much more formally inclined — the book contains a crown of sonnets and two sestinas, perhaps the only good sestinas I’ve ever read.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
He takes traditional verse forms — sonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoums — and retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes as well.
From New York Times ● Nov. 22, 2016
Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza.
From Time Magazine Archive
He’s obsessed with forms like sonnets and sestinas.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
Such, for instance, is the chanson d'amour, a form less artfully regulated indeed than the corresponding canzon or sestine of the troubadours, but still of some intricacy.
From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George
The canzoni, the sestine, all the lyric metres of Italy and Spain were borrowed from his treasury.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry
Barnabe Barnes’s Odes Pastoral sestine 2: ‘But women will have their own wills, Alas, why then should I complain?’
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
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Academic and Literary Vocabulary, Unit 2
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