sestina
noun[C]
literaturespecializeduk/səˈstiː.nə/us/səˈstiː.nə/apoemthat has 39linesand acomplicatedpatternofrepeatinglines:
Itaughtmyself to write haikus,sonnets, and sestinas.
- You can write a sestina on anysubjectyouchoose.
- A sestina is anidealformto use if youwantto write about asituationwhere you aretrappedorhelplessorlost.
- The sestina has sixstanzas, eachcomprisingsix unrhymedlines, in which the words at the end of the first stanza’slinesreappearin arollingpatternin the otherstanzas.
Literature
- action hero
- alliterative
- alternative history
- anapest
- anti-literary
- femslash
- fictionality
- fictive
- free verse
- genre fiction
- ode
- passion play
- pentameter
- poem
- poesy
- theatrics
- topos
- tragedy
- tragicomic
- trilogy