How to Write a Sestina

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

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[@MrBushidoWarrior]

I do NOT want a rhymed sestina. I'm just dropping a comment to say that you have easily become one of my favorite people for poetry explanations. Great video! (Great outfit and make-up 👍🏽) Looking forward to exploring your channel! 👏🏽🙏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽👏🏽🙏🏽🙌🏽

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

You're the best! I love that! Although I feel like a rhymed sestina is coming... just because its something to do while I'm stuck not going to the pub!

[@martialmonk2434]

I initially learned about sestinas from the book The Ode Less Traveled by Stephen Fry. This was an awesome refresher! Now I am writing one about how important and powerful the reactions of care givers are to small children and much they can influence the rest of their lives. Thank you!

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Glad you found it useful - the topic sounds really interesting! Repeated words sounds great for this too.

[@martialmonk2434]

Just finished the first draft, and I'm really happy with it! 😄

[@sonampalmo3578]

I only wrote free verse until a poet friend told me he was challenging himself to write sestina. I tried one and fell in love with the form. So far, I have produced 6 and they have become my therapy. Mine have not rhymed yet, but some day I hope to do one that's full-on iambic pentameter.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

It's definitely a good form to have a go at - good luck with the iambic rhyming sestina!

[@meetthefreestonesfam9208]

Got a sestina for an assignment in my poetry class...lawdy..here it goes! Thanks for making it more enjoyable. :D

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Good luck! You can do it! Pick a funny topic to write about to help ☺️

[@msnani888]

My humanities professor recommended this video and I loved it! You have inspired me to write poetry again and try things, like a Sestina, that scare me. You definitely just gained a new subscriber! I love your channel! Thank you!

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

This made my day! Thank you so much 🥰

[@thetruthis5633]

I am going to write a rhymed Sestina. And I want to see yours ... You have me intrigued.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

I mean... FINE! Haha I struggle with rhyming so much 😂

[@wrestlingcommunity]

My first time looking up how to write a sestina and I’m hooked. :). Aloha

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Ooh I'm glad! I hope your writing goes well

[@sgab]

I’d love a tutorial for a rhymed sestina as well, what a challenge that must be!

[@Sp00tnik-1]

Holy heck! A hidden gem of youtube! Really nice balance of education and entertainment! And yes, if it's not too much trouble, I would love to watch a video on rhymed sestina.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

This comment made my day! It is in the works 😊

[@Sp00tnik-1]

@@JosieAlfordPoet Nice to know! Good luck with the video! 😊

[@VeryNotExtraordinary]

3:48 As someone that craves organization in my writing, this is the first thing I checked for when I saw this video 😂

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

You are a monster 😉

[@monicah3606]

Hi Josie. This was a great refresher! Can you make a video on preparing a poetry manuscript for submission? It is something I've always wondered about, but most of the content I've seen only covers preparing novels, not poetry.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

I'll get to work!

[@libearyn2]

I loved your poem. It was inspiring and helpful. I loved that you let your emotions show through as well. Thank you Josie. I am going to try and follow the rules, and not rhyme.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Thanks Linda! Good luck with your poem!

[@trenthogan4212]

I love your videos and am finding them very helpful. Non sequitur: It is so interesting to me how the lockdowns affected different people. I actually really enjoyed it and I got a lot of studying, writing and reading accomplished. Others, found it living hell.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Glad you like my videos. I am for sure an extrovert so craved the company. Having said that, it wasnt all bad and being able to slow down for sure helped my mental health.

[@trenthogan4212]

@@JosieAlfordPoet I was an extrovert in my 20s but am now much more introverted. I thought we learned a lot from the lockdowns; about who we are, and how we can overcome adversity when we all work together. It did polarize us to a certain degree, however. Better days are ahead and poetry makes those days better! YAY!

[@kittysoftpaws19]

This saved me for my advanced poetry class!

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Glad I could help

[@nerdyxicana4261]

Thank you so much for this! I am working on a sestina for class and I am NOT a poet. I am a fiction creative writer and structured writing like poetry hurts my brain. I am grateful to come across this video! Thank you!

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

I hope the writing went well. Writing poetry is actually fun normally, I promise

[@adamjohnson8228]

I finished a Crown of Sestinas called the "Diadem".

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Impressive stuff!

[@bwdjob4970]

So, happy to have found you. Magnificent irony in the wrestling take down of the Sestina form, and your double lined, cat configured, color coordinated with the blouse/top, headband, reverberating form, is soooo well thought out. Or is it?

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

I would love to say I planned it that way, but I was going through my matchy matchy pinky purple stage 😂

[@eloneelone6060]

Plzzzzz do a rhymed sestina

[@EricDeVaughnn]

I have a sestina, but only one. An amazing poet-for whom I have immense respect-read it and called it a masterpiece, so I think I’m done lol It’s actually my favorite form because of how cleverly it can be subverted and disguised. Terrence Hayes has a brilliantly disguised sestina in his collection Lighthead. Thanks for the video. (Sooooooooo...no link to the Button Poetry video?)

[@iamnintendofan]

Great job on the video, keep it up

[@cookienotspooky4679]

Would absolutely Looooooove a video on a rhymed sestina! Please count our request as one of the 10 lucky ones -requesting it 😁

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Hey! Thanks for the comment! Don't know if you've seen, but the video is here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o56ZnZ2InbKKmbM

[@shalalameowmeow3601]

I have to write a sestina by the end of the day and this video definitely helped me as I am writing about feelings of lockdown but not the lockdown in the form of Domestic Abuse in the rare instance that it happens to men from their girlfriends instead of girls that are physically abused by men. This has happened to me and it is something that sticks with me which I understand is good for a sestina. When I finish I will definitely come back and post it. Thankfully mine doesn't have to rhyme.

[@shalalameowmeow3601]

I now see why you put this video off. Sestin-uh is right.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

I hope the writing went okay. It's hard enough to wrestle with this form without dealing with a heavy subject too.

[@shalalameowmeow3601]

@@JosieAlfordPoet yes the writing did go good. I barely finished it in time. Today my class peer reviewed it and I was able to revise some things and I am now very happy with it. I did comment a link here but I think youtube automatically removed it.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Hey Poetry Pals! I've made a How to Write a Rhymed Sestina Video! Watch it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o56ZnZ2InbKKmbM

[@erinschlueter3009]

You are awesome

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Thanks Erin! You've made my day!

[@hannahrcowan]

You should do one on the ghazal if you're still making these. Also, your videos are great.

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Thanks! I do intend to make more of these, but now I've reached the limit of poems I already knew how to write so now they take a bit more work - I'll add it to the list - wish me luck!

[@tabithagrace3008]

Just stumbled upon this video after going off on a tangent while studying (I'm preparing to give TOEFL next week!). One of the sample lectures mentions a sestina, which piqued my interest. Background - I've been writing poetry informally for over a decade; some with a rhyme, and some with no structure at all XD I'm hoping I'll be able to improve on it and get better at poetry, and I'm sure your videos will be of help! Cheers! Also, I noticed there were only 2 requests so far, so I'm gonna request it eight more times. Hope that counts! ;) Please do a rhymed sestina, Please do a rhymed sestina, Please do a rhymed sestina, Please do a rhymed sestina, Please do a rhymed sestina, Please do a rhymed sestina, Please do a rhymed sestina Please do a rhymed sestina! :P

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Ughhh... Fine!

[@A1D3NA1D3N]

I wanna see a rhymed sestina!

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

My my my aren't you lucky: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o56ZnZ2InbKKmbM

[@cant_Youngod]

Rhymed sestina ❤

[@iceslayer1567]

Where can I find the other examples you have mentioned?

[@saintthrillah]

I’d love to see a rhymed destination video

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Okay okay I'll get to work

[@rachelcolley716]

I would like a rhyming version please..... :-)

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

A month on and you are the only request - I have to say I'm rather pleased!

[@rachelcolley716]

@@JosieAlfordPoet SHAME!

[@allen5455]

We're you "locked down" because of prison?

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

No as in the global Pandemic

[@heidicooper7951]

Rhyme please!! 😝

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

-_- fine...

[@elainebauman6003]

show the poem as you are reading it aloud..it's all about form...let's see it

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

will do in the future :)

[@jeffreybrown9191]

Josie, I watched your video on sestinas and took it as a challenge in my writing. Here is a Sestina I wrote, and I could not have done it without your video. Thank you, I hope you enjoy my attempt. Cheers, Jeff B. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWLTZZKYgbinfLc

[@JosieAlfordPoet]

Hey Jeff! Thanks so much for sharing your sestina with me - I love the video too!