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Poetics

a poem of six six-line stanzas and an envoi in which the same six end-words recur in a fixed rotating order.

In poetics, sestina refers to a poem of six six-line stanzas and an envoi in which the same six end-words recur in a fixed rotating order. This meaning comes from Greene (2012) in The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics.[1]

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Greene, R. A., Cushman, S., & Cavanagh, C. (2012). The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691154916

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