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sestine

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ses⋅ti⋅na

  [se-stee-nuh]
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–noun, plural -nas, -ne  [-ney] . Prosody.
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.
Also called sextain.

Origin:
1580–90; < It, equiv. to sest(o) (< L sextus sixth ) + -ina -ine 2
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sestina 
1838, from It., "poem of six-lined stanzas," from sesto "sixth," from L. sextus (see six). Invented by 12c. Prov. troubadour Arnaut Daniel. The line endings of the first stanza are repeated in different order in the rest, and in an envoi.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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