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—Lo dices porque estás recibiendo sextinas —dijo Savitri.
"You're just saying that because you're getting sestinas," Savitri said.
—También hay tres nuevas sextinas pomo, si las quieres.
“There’re three new porno sestinas, too, if you want them.”
Un soneto, una sextina, la rima a-b-a-b de una balada…, identificarlos no le causaba problemas.
A sonnet, a sestina, an abab rhyme-scheme ballad–identifying these caused him no problems.
Nos hacía leer y comprender formas, analizar versos, nos mandaba escribir una villanela y una sextina.
She made us read and understand forms, scan lines, had us write a villanelle and a sestina.
El nuevo poema era, supuestamente, una sextina que el príncipe Lír canturreaba alegremente en su cabeza, pues había improvisado los versos finales conforme subía la escalera.
The new poem was meant to be a sestina, and Prince Lir's head was jangling happily as he juggled the end words on his way up the stairs to his chamber.
De hecho, el no va más de la gracia literaria consiste en dirigirse a un enemigo (públicamente) en alguna forma poética difícil, la sextina, por ejemplo, con cada una de las palabras destilando vitriolo.
In fact the epitome of literary grace is to address your enemy (publicly) in some difficult verse form, say the sestina, with every word dripping vitriol.
Eran en su mayoría lindos y graciosos, sólo un poco relamidos, porque los enviaba en diferentes formatos: haikus y sonetos y sextinas y algunas formas que no sé cómo se llaman pero que se notaba que se suponía que eran algo.
They were mostly sweet and funny, and only a little bit showing off, because he would send them in different poem formats: haiku and sonnets and sestinas and some forms I don't know what they're called but you could see that they were supposed to be something.
Seguía leyendo mucho, y había adquirido un nuevo interés por la literatura de avant-garde, y en especial por la poesía rígidamente formal de las pequeñas revistas: sextinas, villancejos, baladas, que a pesar de su flojedad en ideas y en penetración eran a menudo fascinantes desde el punto de vista lingüístico.
He still read a great deal, and had taken up a new interest in avant-garde literature, especially in the difficult, rigidly formal poetry of the little magazines—sestinas, villanelles, ballades, which, though somewhat weak on ideas and insight, were often linguistically fascinating.
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