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- noun Plural form of
sestina .
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Examples
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"Just some amaretto while I worked on my sestinas," Byrd says, obviously winded from an elementary pattern he should be able to handle easily if he had followed the squad's mandatory offseason conditioning program.
High School Bards Face Tough Summer of Two-a-Day Practices 2010
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And by the way, here in England there are poets old and young still writing sestinas and villanelles...
Symposium 2009
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I will also observe for the record that, although the recently shortened title for Book Four is probably much better for marketing purposes, it makes life decidedly more interesting for would-be writers of sestinas.
seanan_mcguire: Shakespeare says... seanan_mcguire 2009
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Cast in sestinas, sonnets, blank verse and triolets.
Archive 2009-06-01 Eric Dickens 2009
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Maybe part of the attraction of constrained forms (tweets, sonnets, sestinas, all that Oulipo hath wrought) is that there's a kind of uncertainty principle in operation: the more constrained the language, the more the words *must mean* (or, as readers, we must make them mean).
Twitter verse Lemon Hound 2009
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How do the lives of working mothers resemble sestinas?
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Villanelles and sestinas, though, are entirely synthetic creations.
anagrams in america : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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We line up our stanzas, tweak rhythm and flow, struggle through first sestinas.
Where poems come from. : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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I think sonnets actually belong to a different category of form, though, than sestinas or villanelles.
anagrams in america : Stephen Burt : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Brice is an artist and writer who paints sestinas.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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