Sesta Rima

Sesta rima is a six-line stanza with the rhyme scheme ababcc. It usually moves like a quatrain followed by a closing couplet, and in English poetry it is often associated with Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, which helped make the stanza widely known as the Venus and Adonis stanza.

Example

The morning lifted gold from roof to roof,
The sparrows shook the dew from every tree;
A child ran laughing under drifts of blue,
Then paused to watch a boat move down the sea.
The harbor bells began their deep reply,
And day arrived, bright-shouldered, in the sky.

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