| The sestina, a very elaborate canzonet, was invented in Provence and borrowed by the Italians. |
| Muldoon challenged himself to work within tight poetic forms such as haiku, sestina, and sonnet. |
| From Italy have come, besides the ottava rima and the sonnet, two other metrical forms, the sestina and the terza rima. |
| There are varied poetic forms, including narratives, jazz poems, slam poems, sestina, haiku, couplets and sonnets. |
| His poetry is characterized by its openness to the vagaries of consciousness, its wry, beguiling lyricism, and its innovative use of forms such as the pantoum and the sestina. |
| A sestina is a highly structured poetic composition that is comprised of six six-line stanzas and a three-line concluding stanza known as an envoy. |
