sestina noun.
[sɛ'sti:nǝ] M19.[Italian, from sesto: see SESTET. Cf. SESTINE.]A form of rhymed or unrhymed poem of six stanzas of six lines and a concluding triplet in which the same six words at the line-ends occur in each stanza in six different sequences, apart from the final triplet, in which each line contains two of these words, one at the middle and one at the end. Cf.
SEXTAIN.
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