I attempted to write a sestina
With the grace of a deft ballerina.
But the form's so constrained
My poor feet got too strained!
Lithe gazelle became lurching hyena.
Based on the suggestion: “sestina”
A sestina is a poetic form with six stanzas of six lines each
and then a seventh, three-line stanza. The end words of each line in
the first stanza are reused as end words in the other five stanzas,
and also appear in the three-line stanza. Those end words have to be
employed in a specific order in each stanza, further constraining the
poem.
I have never seen a graceful sestina.
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