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• Cledisat 9 - By Arnaut Daniel. A side-by-side translation from the Provencal, with a .midi version of a traditional troubadour melody. From a troubadour site, which claims this as "the first sextain in the history of literature."
• Complete 360 - A brief description and history of the sestina form with examples.
• Island Sestina - A sestina by Kathleen Craker Firestone, at the Northern Michigan Journal's website.
• Poetic Form: Sestina - An explanation of the form with a link to Ashberry's "Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape" and an explanation of Marie Ponsot's redaction of the form, the "tritina." From the Academy of American Poets.
• Poetry Form - The Sestina. - A description and explanation of the form, with examples and a step-by-step guide to writing one.
• Sestina - Description and examples from a course taught by Alberto Rios.
• Sestina - A brief definition and description from a course at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Sestina - By Elizabeth Bishop. Includes readers' comments.
• Sestina - By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Unusual in its use of rhyme.
• Sestina in the Computer Age - By Scott Reid.
• Sestina of the Tramp-Royal - By Rudyard Kipling, in Cockney dialect. Part of the DayPoems Poetry Collection edited by Timothy Bovee.
• Sestina: Altaforte - By Ezra Pound. Perhaps the most famous modern use of the form.
• Sestinas for Free - A collection by Nicholas Gordon that can be used free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
• Sestinas: Browse, or Build Your Own - A template for creating sestinas.
• Some Thoughts on Sestinas - By Lawrence Schimel, with a sestina by Joe Haldeman.
• The Krenek Sestinas - By Don Mager. A set of six related sestinas both echoing and about the music and life of Ernst Krenek, a serial composer. Part of Eclectica Magazine v2n2.
• The Sestina Page - A Web site devoted to the sestina form, with a large online archive of examples. Going beyond the extensive home page requires the reader to join "Yahoo Groups."
• The Shrinking Lonesome Sestina - By Miller Williams. Part of a larger site called The Wondering Minstrels.

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