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"A Sestina is a thirty-nine line song-like poem with a structure characterized by six six-line stanzas in which six end words are repeated in a consistent pattern followed by a three-line envoy in which all six end words appear again.

The traditional pattern for repeating end words is below (notice how the 6th, 5th, and 4th end words—F, E, and D—of the first stanza become the 1st, 3rd, and 5th end words of the next. This pattern is repeated from one stanza to the next):

1st stanza: ABCDEF

2nd stanza: FAEBDC

3rd stanza: CFDABE

4th stanza: ECBFAD

5th stanza: DEACFB

6th stanza: BDFECA

3-line envoy: include the six end words, usually two per line, in any order"

There is a reason that on the page for Sestina examples I went to, the paid advertising was for drug rehab centers... just saying.