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  • Sestina Forms
    One of the most difficult and complex of the various French forms, the sestina is a poem consisting of six sixline stanzas and a threeline envoy. It makes no use of the refrain. This form is usually unrhymed, the effect of rhyme being taken over by a ...
    http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sestina.html

  • McSweeneys Internet Tendency
    Timothy McSweeneys Internet Tendency. A site that posts submissions of sestinas only. The quality varies. ...
    http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/sestinas/

  • The Sestina
    The inventor of the sestina, Arnaut Daniel, belonged to a group of twelfthcentury poetsthe troubadourswho needed, for their fame and fortune, to shock, delight, and entertain. . . The troubadours first appear in southern France in the twelfth century ...
    http://www.public.asu.edu/~aarios/formsofverse/reports2000/page9.html

  • Sestina Page
    A webpage devoted to the sestina form, with a large online archive of examples. ...
    http://www.geocities.com/suzstina/sestina.htm

  • Poetry Form
    Historically, the Sestina is a French form. It appeared in France in the twelfth century, initially in the work of Arnaut Daniel. He was one of the troubadours or court poets and singers in the service of French nobles.m Troubadours were lyric poets. ...
    http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/sestina.htm

  • The Complete 360
    Sestinas have been around since the 16th century and its invention has oftenbeen attributed to the poet trabadour Arnaut Daniel. It fell into disuse until the 16th centory, when it was revived by Ferdinand, Comte de Gramount who wrote a large number ...
    http://complete360.50webs.com/sestina.html

  • Shrinking Lonesome Sestina
    By Miller Williams. Part of a larger site called The Wondering Minstrels. ...
    http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/904.html

  • Sestinas Browse or Build
    A template for creating sestinas. ...
    http://dilute.net/sestinas/index.php

  • Sestina in Computer Age
    The Sestina in the Computer Age by Scott Reid. ...
    http://www.sonic.net/~scotts/sestina.html

  • The Sestinas for Free
    A collection by Nicholas Gordon that can be used free for any personal or noncommercial purpose. ...
    http://www.poemsforfree.com/sestinas.html

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