Sestina
（重定向自Sextain）
![Arnaut Daniel](/Images/godic/202502/10/Arnaut_Daniel_-_BN_MS_fr_124731017.jpg")
![Graphical representation of the algorithm for ordering the end-words in a sestina](/Images/godic/202502/10/Sestina_system_alt.svg1017.png")
![Retrogradatio cruciata: The pattern of end-words in one stanza of a sestina, relative to the previous stanza.](/Images/godic/202502/10/Sestina_system_retrogradatio_cruciata.svg1017.png")
A sestina (Old Occitan: cledisat [klediˈzat]; also known as sestine, sextine, sextain) is a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, normally followed by a three-line envoi. The words that end each line of the first stanza are used as line endings in each of the following stanzas, rotated in a set pattern.