| 单词 | sestina |
| 例句 | “Yes, I was wondering if it would be possible for you to write a sestina about Margo Roth Spiegelman’s breasts? Your six words are: pink, round, firmness, succulent, supple, and pillowy.” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The story’s structure resembles that of a sestina, the same elements — Jordan, Seinfeld, aluminum foil, Chore Boy and baking soda — recombining in different configurations throughout to dizzying effect. Stories That Render America Just Strange Enough to Recognize 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z She pivots formally, too, between hints of the sestina and the villanelle. Review: In Rita Dove’s Verse, Tangy Words to Savor 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z Although an occasional narrative experiment might disrupt the format, what makes “Law & Order” special is precisely the fact that it has one, like a sonnet, a sestina, or an ottava rima. ‘Law & Order’ (still) hasn't changed. And that's exactly why it's lasted 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z There aren’t strict rules for what is poetry unless you’re trying to adhere to a specific form like the sestina, haiku or limerick. New to poetry? These poets will help you get started 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z Her own verse often drew on classical forms such as the villanelle, sestina, tritina and sonnet, and sometimes incorporated references to ancient mythology and medieval legend. Marie Ponsot, elegant poet of the sea, stars and her seven-child family, dies at 98 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z At its best, whether in blank verse or in a 39-line sestina, his work was lyrical and bracing. J.D. McClatchy, elegant poet and ‘literary polymath,’ dies at 72 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z He writes, for instance, of the sestina, a poem of six stanzas of six lines each plus a final three-line stanza. Books: Daniel Tammet’s ‘Thinking in Numbers’ Dwells on a Pure Love 2013-09-09T18:50:50Z The common form of the sestina has six stanzas of six lines each, with a tercet at the end. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The sestina has six six-line stanzas and an envoy: in the stanzas the final words of each line remain the same throughout, though the order is changed. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima. The Principles of English Versification A sestina is numerical by definition, but to suggest that it is beautiful as an end in itself would be like admiring a Beethoven sonata purely for its structure while ignoring the music. Books: Daniel Tammet’s ‘Thinking in Numbers’ Dwells on a Pure Love 2013-09-09T18:50:50Z For a specimen of the rimed sestina, see Swinburne's Poems and Ballads, Second Series, p. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The sestina is a trifle too long to quote, but one of the best and sanest examples is to be found in Kipling’s Seven Seas—“The Sestina of the Tramp Royal.” Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers |
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