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A sestain is a six-line poem or repetitive unit of a poem of this format , comparable to quatrain (Ruba'i in Persian and Arabic) which is a four-line poem or a unit of a poem. There are many types of sestain with different rhyme schemes, for example AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB or AAABAB. [1]
It is in iambic pentameter rhyming ABABAB in the first stanza; each stanza begins by repeating the previous end-words 6 then 1, but the following 4 lines repeat the remaining end-words ad lib; the envoi is (1) 4 / (2) 3 / (5) 6. In the same volume (Poems and Ballads, Second Series, 1878) Swinburne introduces a "double sestina" [5] [21] ("The ...
A sestet is six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem. A sestet is also the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet (as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet), which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines.
The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.
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Missouri Poet Laureate David L. Harrison describes something unexpected he found after checking into a room with a fly in it.
Love Is Not All: It Is Not Meat nor Drink is a 1931 poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, written during the Great Depression. [1]The poem was included in her collection Fatal Interview, a sequence of 52 sonnets, appearing alongside other sonnets such as "I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields," and "Love me no more, now let the god depart," rejoicing in romantic language and vulnerability. [2]
"I know every morning when I get up and write a poem that I am still alive, too," writes Jane Yolen, author of more than 450 books.