Category:Sestinas

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Description

A sestina is a "fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi ["half-stanza"]. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern" (Wikipedia).

Table of sestina end-words
St.1 St.2 St.3 St.4 St.5 St.6
1 A 6 F 3 C 5 E 4 D 2 B
2 B 1 A 6 F 3 C 5 E 4 D
3 C 5 E 4 D 2 B 1 A 6 F
4 D 2 B 1 A 6 F 3 C 5 E
5 E 4 D 2 B 1 A 6 F 3 C
6 F 3 C 5 E 4 D 2 B 1 A

View the Wikipedia article on Sestinas.