sixain

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"I have read your last sixain.

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  • "I have read your last sixain. —  Cinq Mars — Complete
  • Ah, what a sixain! how full of the gallant and the tendre? " —  Cinq Mars — Complete
  • It manages a rather difficult metre (the sixain rhymed _ababcc_ and ending with an Alexandrine) without too much of the monotony which is its special danger. —  Matthew Arnold
 

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  1. from French sixain, Old French sisain, sixaine, sixain =Provencal seizen =Spanish seiseno, sixth, from Middle Latin sexenus, from Latin sex, six: see six.
 

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