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Word: Sestina
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
mid 19th century: from Italian, from sesto (see sestet)
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
sɛˈstiːnə
Dialects: British English
Definition:
a poem with six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet, all stanzas having the same six words at the line ends in six different sequences.
Short Definition:poem with six stanzas of six lines and final triplet
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