sixain

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sixain

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sixaine

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(Poetry) a stanza or poem of six lines
[from French]
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(11) The Elizabethan Lord Mayors' Shows by George Peele from 1585 and 1591, (12) for example, largely contain six-line stanzas of alternating rhyme, such as ababcc, an all-purpose form George Puttenham calls a "sixaine," with some blank verse.
"To kindle an industrious desire": the poetry of work in Lord Mayors' shows