📚 noun • entry_id 43189
sestina
Meanings (ES + gloss)
sextina
A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.
Although the sestina is of medieval French origin, attributed to Arnaut Daniel in the late twelfth century and used by other Gallic poets and by Italians including Petrarch and Dan…
Would he let others toil to support him while he languished all afternoon over his sestinas?
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