Distain for the Dizain

Thief
2 min readAug 15, 2021

a dizain

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French poetic forms:-

The dizain was a favorite of the fifteenth and sixteenth-century French poets, but it has also been employed in English by the likes of Philip Sidney and John Keats. Here are the basic rules:

One ten-line stanza

Ten syllables per line

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