• "Sestina" In fair Provence, the land of lute and rose, Arnaut, great master of the lore of love, First wrought sestines to win his lady's heart, For she...
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    Nathan Michael Sestina (born May 12, 1997) is an American professional basketball player for Valencia of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroCup. He played...
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    reality and imagination, a technique also used in her poem "Sestina". Bishop's poem "Sestina", published in 1956 in The New Yorker, depicts a real-life...
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    literary treatments of the painting were in poems. For Yann Lovelock in his sestina, "Vermeer’s Head of a Girl", it is the occasion for exploring the interplay...
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    forms that feature refrains include the villanelle, the virelay, and the sestina. In popular music, the refrain or chorus may contrast with the verse melodically...
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  • (see chain rhyme). There are also more elaborate related forms, like the sestina – which requires repetition of exact words in a complex pattern. Rhyming...
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    bars with Dr. Amir Marashi. In 2022, the contents of Kenney's restaurant Sestina were auctioned off by the state of New York for unpaid taxes and the Double...
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  • more complex, such as the Spenserian stanza. Fixed verse poems, such as sestinas, can be defined by the number and form of their stanzas. The stanza has...
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    Petrarchan sonnet Planh Reverdie Rondeau Rondel Rondelet Salut d'amor Sestina Sicilian octave Sirventes Tagelied Tenso Tornada Torneyamen Traethodl Triolet...
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    poets of 20th century revive dramatic poetry, including Ezra Pound in "Sestina: Altaforte," T.S. Eliot with "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Speculative...
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