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THE RULES FOR A SESTINA. This post contained Anthony Hecht’s Sestina d’Inverno about winter in Rochester (and Syracuse). Hecht was one of the few poets to invent a form of verse, the double dactyl. The rules for a sestina are … Continue reading →

THE WINTER SESTINA—SESTINA D’INVERNO. Here is another wonderful poem by Anthony Hecht: “Sestina d’Inverno” by Anthony Hecht: Here in this bleak city of Rochester, Where there are twenty-seven words for “snow,” Not all of them polite, the wayward mind Basks … Continue reading →

ANTHONY HECHT—INVENTOR OF THE DOUBLE DACTYL. I posted here that I agree with Auden on the value of light verse. Anthony Hecht was, along with John Hollander, one of the inventors of the double dactyl form, which is more complicated … Continue reading →

A POEM ABOUT SYRACUSE WINTERS. I point out—on behalf of Mary Jane, whose youth was spent in Syracuse—that Syracuse can be substituted for Rochester in the Sestina d’Inverno (with the exception of the reference to the Earl of Rochester). It … Continue reading →