Sestina

A Sestina comprises six six-line stanzas with end-words deployed according to a particular pattern, followed by a three-line envoi with two end-words per line. See Conjoined Forms. 

Source

Traditional Poetic Form

Works that use this form

• Metasestina
• Metasestina 3: Sestina on a Sestina on Self-Loathing
• Newspoem 27 June 1999 Roses Are Not Red (with Dirk Stratton)
• Newspoem 4 April 1998: Serious Problems
• Riskless (Metasestina 1)
• Tarantula (Metasestina 2)

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