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sestine

  • plural
    of sestina.
    sestina
    noun
    a poem of six six-line stanzas and a three-line envoy, originally without rhyme, in which each stanza repeats the end words of the lines of the first stanza, but in different order, the envoy using the six words again, three in the middle of the lines and three at the end.

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Such, for instance, is the chanson d'amour, a form less artfully regulated indeed than the corresponding canzon or sestine of the troubadours, but still of some intricacy.

From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury

Barnabe Barnes’s Odes Pastoral sestine 2: ‘But women will have their own wills, Alas, why then should I complain?’

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee

The canzoni, the sestine, all the lyric metres of Italy and Spain were borrowed from his treasury.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam