- A
sestain is a six-line poem or
repetitive unit of a poem of this
format (musaddas),
comparable to
quatrain (Ruba'i in
Persian and Arabic)
which is a...
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Couplet Ghazal Quatorzain Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic stanza Sestain Sestet Sonnet Tail
rhyme Tercet Triolet Terza rima
Verse paragraph Villanelle...
- stanza: AAABAB, as used by
Robert Burns in
works such as "To a Mouse"
Sestain: AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB, AAABAB, and
others Sestet:
various schemes depending...
- مسدس) is a
genre of Urdu
poetry in
which each unit
consists of 6 lines-
sestain- (misra).
Famous early writers employing this form are Mir Anis and Dabeer...
- royal: a
stanza of
seven 10-syllable lines,
rhyming "ababbcc."
Sapphic Sestain Sestet: a 6-line
stanza Onegin stanza Spenserian:
consists of 9
lines in...
- recited,
following a poem
Machar had
written for the occasion. The poem, in
sestains of
iambic pentameter,
exemplifies several persistent themes in Rothwell's...
