sextain

[ sek-steyn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, Prosody.

sextain

/ ˈsɛksteɪn /

Origin of sextain¹

1630–40; blend of two obsolete French words: sixain six-line stanza and sestine sestina

Origin of sextain¹

C17: from obsolete French sestine sestina , but also influenced by obsolete sixain stanza of six lines

Some other sub-varieties of the sextain have rhyming final words in each stanza.

Besides this original form of the sextain several other varieties are met with in English poetry.

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