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sextain
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[], (Noun)
Definitions:
- In early use: = "sestina". Later also more generally: any stanza or poem consisting of six lines.
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Origin
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early 17th century; earliest use found in William Drummond (1585–1649), poet and pamphleteer. Alteration of sextine, after quatrain, quintain, etc
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