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Hansel and Gretel Inspired Sestina

Dorlana ♦ March 10, 2020 ♦ Leave a comment

For #fairytaleTuesday I’m posting my Hansel and Gretel inspired sestina I wrote when I was experimenting with combining poems and fairy tales. A sestina has six stanzas of six lines and a final triplet. Each stanzas has the same six words at the end of each line that follow a fixed pattern. My words are: …

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Dorlana

Hi! Welcome to my page. I'm a Texas author of contemporary novels for teens and adults. My inspirations are fairy tales, the supernatural, and classic romantic comedies. I like taking elements from fairy tales (characters, mood, moral, plot) and mixing them with a paranormal element and then dropping them in a contemporary setting.