The sestina is a tightly structured French verse form consisting of six sestets sixline stanzas and a threeline envoy Widely acknowledged to be one of the most complicated of verse forms the ID: 654841
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Copy the bolded portion only: The sestina is a tightly structured French verse form consisting of six sestets (six-line stanzas) and a three-line envoy. Widely acknowledged to be one of the most complicated of verse forms, the six terminal words of the first stanza (1-2-3-4-5-6) are repeated in a specific and complex pattern as the terminal words in each of the succeeding stanzas: 6-1-5-2-4-33-6-4-1-2-55-3-2-6-1-44-5-1-3-6-22-4-6-5-3-15-3-12-4-6
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Copy the bolded portion only: Villanelle 1. It is a poem of nineteen lines, of a specific and complicated form.2. It has five stanzas, each of three lines, with a final one of four lines (5 tercets and a quatrain).3. The first line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the second and fourth stanzas.4. The third line of the first stanza is repeated as the last line of the third and fifth stanzas.5. These two refrain lines follow each other to become the second-to-last and last lines of the poem.
6. The rhyme scheme is aba. The rhymes are repeated according to the refrains.
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To read examples of the sestina and villanelle.To use the SIFT method to analyze these poems.To determine the theme of each poem and to fill out the chart.Learning Targets Slide4
Open your assigned poem.Open your SIFT sheet.Before identifying symbols, try to use the poem to better understand the complexities of its form (do this with someone else if need be).Once you see the pattern, use the SIFT sheet to select symbols, imagery, figurative language, and tone either independently or with your neighbor.**You have 20 minutes (because these poems are harder than yesterday’s)!To Do:Slide5
SYMBOLSIMAGERYFIGURATIVE LANGUAGETONE (words)SestinaSlide6
SYMBOLSIMAGERYFIGURATIVE LANGUAGETONE (words)VillanelleSlide7
Determine the THEME of each poem. Add both of today’s poems to the chart that you started yesterday in your journalIndependent Work