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sestina

/se-stee-nuh/US // sɛˈsti nə //UK // (sɛˈstiːnə) //

塞斯提娜,塞斯提那,塞斯蒂纳,塞斯提纳

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ses·ti·nas, ses·ti·ne [se-stee-ney]. /sɛˈsti neɪ/. Prosody.

    • : a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.

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Examples

  • That it was used and admired by Dante and Petrarch, alone gives the sestina a royal precedence over all of the other forms.

  • The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians.

  • The common form of the sestina has six stanzas of six lines each, with a tercet at the end.

  • Naught else have I afforded you, madame, save very anciently a Sestina.

  • From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima.