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stanzas

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of Stanza

Source: Webster's dictionary

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A "double sestina" is the name given to either: two sets of six six-line stanzas, with a three-line envoy (for a total of 75 lines), or twelve twelve-line stanzas, with a six-line envoy (for a total of 150 lines). Source: Internet

Attestations Hvergelmir is attested in the following works: Poetic Edda Hvergelmir receives a single mention in the Poetic Edda, found in the poem Grímnismál: This stanza is followed by three stanzas consisting mainly of the names of 42 rivers. Source: Internet

By 1686 he had definitely established the "Italian overture" form (second edition of Dal male il bene), and had abandoned the ground bass and the binary form air in two stanzas in favour of the ternary form or da capo type of air. Source: Internet

As a reference, Just-As-High quotes the second of the two stanzas in Grímnismál that mention the bridge (see above). Source: Internet

A "tritina" is a contraction of the sestina to three stanzas of three lines (tercets), with a one-line envoy. Source: Internet

But the clearest demonstration of his mastery of this art form is probably the Paralipomeni della Batracomiomachia, a brief comic-heroic poem of eight stanzas of eight lines each. Source: Internet

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