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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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.