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Just as sonnets, sestinas, and haiku follow patterns of lines, so do visual compositions.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

McSweeney is much more formally inclined — the book contains a crown of sonnets and two sestinas, perhaps the only good sestinas I’ve ever read.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2020

He takes traditional verse forms — sonnets, sestinas, ballads, pantoums — and retools them, as if they were engine parts, for his own purposes as well.

From New York Times • Nov. 22, 2016

Merrill was gleefully eclectic: he wrote sonnets and sestinas and haikus and epigrams; he worked in heroic couplets and terza rima and the Rubaiyat stanza.

From Time Magazine Archive

He’s obsessed with forms like sonnets and sestinas.

From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan