A sestina ( ; or ; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain or sesta rima ) is a structured 39-line poem consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a three-line stanza, known either as an envoi or tornada.

The sestina is composed of six stanzas of six lines ( sixains ), followed by a stanza of three lines ( a tercet ).

The ut – re – mi-fa-so-la syllables are taken from the initial syllables of each of the first six half-lines of the first stanza of the hymn Ut queant laxis, whose text is attributed to the Italian monk and scholar Paulus Diaconus ( though the musical line either shares a common ancestor with the earlier setting of Horace's " Ode to Phyllis " ( Odes 4. 11 ) recorded in the Montpellier manuscript H425, or may even have been taken from it.

In this melody, each of the first six musical phrases of each stanza of the hymn begins on a successively higher note of the hexachord, corresponding to the tone proposed by Guido of Arezzo, except the last line, Sancte Iohannes, which is an adonius after the three Sapphic hendecasyllables, breaking the ascending pattern.

The muwashshah consists of five stanzas ( bait ) of four to six lines, alternating with five or six refrains ( qufl ); each refrain has the same rhyme and metre, whereas each stanza has only the same metre.

He was the inventor of the sestina, a song of six stanzas of six lines each, with the same end words repeated in every stanza, though arranged in a different and intricate order.

The first stanza (" Had we ...") is ten couplets long, the second (" But ...") six, and the third (" Now therefore ...") seven.

However, Hernández also uses a rhyming six-line stanza (" like the six strings of a guitar ," said Lugones ) with a novel invention.

The use of the ABAB structure in the beginning lines of each stanza represents a clear example of structure found in classical literature, and the remaining six lines appear to break free of the traditional poetic styles of Greek and Roman odes.

In the Poetic Edda, the poem Alvíssmál has a stanza that lists six worlds, clarifying each ' homeworld ' ( heimr ) is the realm of a different family of beings.

Gadugina Bharata is composed in the Bhamini Shatpadi meter, a form of six lined stanza.

A sestet is also six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem.

Once he learns of Intellectual Beauty, he makes a vow, which begins stanza six:

Samuel Taylor Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, alternating eight and six syllable lines.

The poem was written in a Habbie stanza with the stanza six lines long and the rhyme aaabab.

It was fabricated by AMD in a slightly modified version of their CS44E process, a 0. 25 µm complementary metal – oxide – semiconductor ( CMOS ) process with six levels of aluminium interconnect.

The current version was composed by Ramón Carnicer, with words by Eusebio Lillo, and has six parts plus the chorus.

This version of croquet varies from six-wicket croquet in that there are nine wickets, two stakes, and players usually compete individually with a single ball, with up to six players competing.

The same basic engine block can be used with different crankshafts, however, to alter the firing order ; for instance, the 90 ° V6 engine configuration, in older days sometimes derived by using six cylinders of a V8 engine with what is basically a shortened version of the V8 crankshaft, produces an engine with an inherent pulsation in the power flow due to the " missing " two cylinders.

Brown himself received six Academy Award nominations and in 1949 won the British Academy Award for the film version of William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust.

Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown ( titled simply Duke Nukem in Europe ), the PlayStation version, contains all three original episodes, plus a new one, Plug ' n ' Pray, which includes six extra levels and a secret level, the latter which was also included in the PC version.

A four carburettor version produced and a six carburettor version produced.

( The six-player version found in the extension has the map split into six islands ; the scenario is titled The Six Islands, but is played identically.

This version runs 89 minutes, which is actually six minutes longer than the Japanese version.

It was replaced by a second version one month later, followed by six further drafts published by IETF itself that finally led to HTML 2. 0 in RFC1866

In this version, Moses and the Jews wander through the desert for only six days, capturing the Holy Land on the seventh.

The primary change from the 6502 was the addition of an 8-bit general purpose I / O port ( only six I / O pins were available in the most common version of the 6510 ).

The version of the Iron Monger featured in Iron Man: Armored Adventures is much larger than most other versions, about as tall as a six story house.

The arcade version of the video game hardware is often referred to as the " MVS ," or Multi Video System ( available in 1-slot, 2-slot, 4-slot, and 6-slot variations, the latter being capable of up to six cartridges loaded into one machine ), with its console counterpart referred to as the " AES ", or Advanced Entertainment System ( most likely to distinguish it from the Nintendo Entertainment System, the dominating console on the market at the time ). Neo Geo AES motherboard.

An initial Australian DVD release in 2001 was followed by a revised version six years later.

Their version attracted a good deal of attention, not least from David Bowie, as it was released in June 1979 just six weeks after Bowie's version had hit the UK Top 10 in April.

The Doctor Who edition, broadcast in 2005, showed a futuristic version of the show in the year 200, 100, with only six contestants, and presented by an ' Anne Droid ' ( voiced by Anne Robinson ) who disintegrates the contestants being voted off.

Producers Sales Organization released the film theatrically around the world, in the Eastern Bloc, China, North Korea and Cuba ( this international version contained six minutes of footage not in the telecast edition ).

It works identically to the single-player version, except that there are two human players and six computer-controlled ones.

The standard version is played on a board depicting a political map of the Earth, divided into forty-two territories, which are grouped into six continents.

This book was quoted directly, and expanded on by Mani, becoming one of the original six Syriac writings of the Manichaean Church.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

Churchill is further quoted by Bernard Wasserstein in his book, " Barbarism and Civilization ," as saying that the book ( and later the film ) was worth " six divisions of war effort.

The marriage took place in July, 1952 — though six years later, when there was conflict between Ida and Vava, " Marc and Vava divorced and immediately remarried under an agreement more favourable to Vava " ( Jean-Paul Crespelle: Chagall, l ' Amour le Reve et la Vie, quoted in Haggard: My Life with Chagall ).

In Arrian's Indica, Megasthenes is quoted as stating that the Indians counted from " Dionysos " ( Shiva ) to " Sandracottus " ( Chandragupta Maurya ) " a hundred and fifty-three kings over six thousand and forty-three years.

In the fifteenth edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations ( 1980 ), nine sections of " Ulysses ", comprising 36 of the poem's 70 lines, are quoted, compared to only six in the ninth edition ( 1891 ).

The prosecution countered with testimony that some of the quotes in the affidavits were untrue, and further that six of the people quoted were dead.

A 1955 Warner Brothers press release quoted Dean as saying, " I shall be busy for the rest of 1955, and Nick will be doing film work for the next six months.

The origins of this tradition are vague but its presence in Judeo-Christian countries can be associated with one quotation from the Old Testament () cited six times in the New Testament (,,,, and ) and quoted by the writer of the Book of 1st Peter.

Mark Allen, six time Ironman Hawaii champion, has been quoted as saying Powerman Zofingen is the hardest race he ever participated in.

Captain Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache is sometimes quoted as the man with the most ever " barrels " in his surname ( six ), but in fact all but the last two of these ( Tollemache-Tollemache ) were forenames.

According to a BBC news article, Eliyahu Yardeni, a senior figure in the London Kabbalah Centre has been quoted as saying, " Just to tell you another thing about the six million Jews that were killed in the Holocaust: the question was that the Light was blocked.

Joe quoted " this is heavy, thats cool ... after that I picked up a bass that had been laying around our parent's house for like six months, actually the guy Vitamin R ( Leading Us Along ) was written about left his bass he rented and didn't play it for like six months, maybe it was because of ritalin or something ".

::" Aquinas, Augustine, St. Bernard, Bhagavad-Gita, Buddha, Jean Pierre Camus, St. Catherine, Christ, Chuang Tzu, “ Cloud of Unknowing ,” Contemplation, Deliverance, Desire, Eckhart ( five lines, the most quoted person ), Eternity, Fénelon, François de Sales, Godhead, Humility, Idolatry, St. John of the Cross, Knowledge, Lankavatara Sutra, William Law ( another four lines ), Logos, Love, Mahayana, Mind, Mortification, Nirvana, Perennial Philosophy ( six lines, a total of 40 entries in all ), Prayer, Rumi, Ruysbroeck, Self, Shankara, Soul, Spirit, “ Theologia Germanica ,” Truth, Upanishads ( six different ones are quoted ), Will, Words.

The first mention is in the work Zhou Li of the late Zhou dynasty, and the six types are listed in the Hanshu of the first century CE, and in Zheng Zhong ( 鄭眾 ) quoted by Zheng Xuan ( 鄭玄 ) in his first-century commentary of Zhou Li, although the details vary.

It was the best-rated television program in Puerto Rico in three ( or five, depending on which source is quoted ) out of the six years of the program's run.

Missionaries were often instructed to adhere very closely to the six lessons, and they frequently quoted segments word-for-word ( an especially helpful practice when learning a foreign language ).

* Calvin Coolidge was quoted as saying of his successor Herbert Hoover ; " for six years that man has given me unsolicited advice — all of it bad.

In this article, Schaubroeck is quoted as saying, " If you want a hard-to-find guitar, we can hand it to you in six or seven different colors.