1. By Asia Owens, Khadijah Carbon, Daniel Corredor
Sestina
By Asia Owens, Khadijah Carbon, Daniel Corredor

2. What is a Sestina?
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.
Pretty much using the last word in each sentence in the poem to repeat in the stanza
To add on

3. The origins of a “Sestina”
The invention of the sestina form is traditionally attributed to Arnaut Daniel, a 12th-century troubadour of Provence, although his contribution to its development has been debated.
Other poets on the continent cultivated the sestina during the 13-15th centuries, including Dante and Petrarch in Italy, and Luís de Camões in Portugal.

4. Format
First stanza,
Second stanza,
Third stanza,
Fourth stanza,
Fifth stanza,
Sixth stanza,

5. Format cont
Concluding stanza: middle of first line ..2, end of first line ..5 middle of second line ..4, end of second line..3 middle if third line ..6, end of third line ..1
The fifth and sixth stanza are optional but the concluding stanza is a must

6. Caution
Remember the change is only for the last word in each line

7. An Example of a Sestina

8. Pretty Roses Now the pretty roses have their own place
Where there space to dance
A place with a worth
never in a vase
Not being shunned on the floor
But loving glances
Pretty roses on the floor
Laying there without no worth
Can’t rhyme, sing or dance
No feeling or some type of glance
But just trapped in a place
And never in a vase
The glorifying vase
Shunning the roses on the floor
Showing the world its place
It has its own worth
People are memorize by one glance
The colors on the vase fly, prance and dance
This mysterious dance
Of the confidence vase
Is only hidden by glance
On the floor
To the roses with no worth
And trapped in it secret place