Ever since I learned of the form after reading Neil
Gaiman's Vampire Sestina (reviewed in Songs of Eretz on May 28,
2012), I have wanted to try my hand at writing a sestina. Poets.org
describes the sestina as "a complex form that achieves its often
spectacular effects through intricate repetition...of the initial six end-words
of the first stanza through the remaining five six-line stanzas, culminating in
a three-line envoi."
The result of my efforts, Knight Sestina, is
a song about a knight being encouraged to fight bravely in the face of an
onslaught of demons. Usually, the end words of a sestina form a rhyme
scheme of sorts, but I deliberately chose three pairs of rhyming words in order
to introduce a stronger rhyme scheme into my lines (knight, lance, fight,
advance, gale, fail).
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