posted by [identity profile] en-ki.livejournal.com at 05:02pm on 2005-10-04
Sestina! Sestina! Sestina!
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:25pm on 2005-10-04
That's easy for you to say! The sestina is a form that's always intimidated me. (Though I guess it'd do me good to try.) Since the cat was sleeping, I guess it'd be a siesta sestina.
 
posted by [identity profile] liritsvoice.livejournal.com at 08:35pm on 2005-10-04
huh, a sestina? what are the rules of writing one?
 
posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 05:16am on 2005-10-05
I only remembered that it was complex and scary-seeming the last time I'd looked, and had to look it up (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sestina) again to answer your question. It's six sextuplets and a triplet, and the words that end the lines of the first sextuplet have to be used to end the lines of the other sextuplets, but according to a particular pattern.

I'd feel safer writing a double-dactyl (but those tend to come out as cutesy as limericks, maybe not the right feel for this image).

And a confession: I don't think I've ever intentionally written a sonnet, either.

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