The Shipwreck

Alaina G. Lowery, Cedarville UniversityFollow

Keywords

Cedarville, undergraduate, literary journal

Department/School of Contributor's Major

English, Literature, and Modern Languages

Publication Date

Spring 2025

Disciplines

Type of Work

Poetry

DOI

10.15385/jcr.2025.25.34

Contributor's Note

It's a sestina about a kraken attacking and sinking a pirate ship. I just wanted to write a cool pirate ship story. A sestina is a poem consisting of six stanzas with six lines and a final triplet. The last word of each line in the first stanza is repeated in a specific different order for the next five stanzas. The final triplet contains two end-words per line, one in the middle and one at the end, so that all six end-words are included in the final stanza. This sestina is unrhymed and written in iambic pentameter.

Disclaimer

The CedarCommons repository provides a publication platform for fully open access journals, which means that all articles are available on the Internet to all users immediately upon publication. However, the opinions and sentiments expressed by the authors of articles published in our journals do not necessarily indicate the endorsement or reflect the views of Digital Services, the Centennial Library, or Cedarville University and its employees. The authors are solely responsible for the content of their work. Please address questions to the Digital Services staff.

Recommended Citation

Lowery, Alaina G. (2025) "The Shipwreck," Cedarville Review: Vol. 25, Article 22.
DOI: 10.15385/jcr.2025.25.34
Available at: https://digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/cedarvillereview/vol25/iss1/22