Besides a pantoum, 16 of the book's 50 poems, including its opener, are 18-liners arranged in ABBACC heroic sestets. |
Written mostly in couplets and sestets, the Buez Santez Nonn survives in five copies, four of them made by eighteenth-century antiquarian Louis Le Pelletier. |
The first stanza of rhymed iambic sestets indicates that imagination and machinery have fused disturbingly, even that the loom has become the maker of dreams. |
A collection of six-line poems, Sestets is something new from Charles Wright. |
Its form is not just that of a sonnet but of a sonnet topped and tailed by two sort-of sestets which modify or even contradict it. |
She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets. |