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Cassandra - an epic poem by the renaissance English poet Richard Barnfield, published in 1595 in the volume Cynthia with Certain Sonnets, and the Legend of Cassandra. The work is written in a sextet, a six-cornered rhabarous ababcc, popular in the Renaissance, used, among others, by William Shakespeare, Thomas Campion and Thomas Heywood. The protagonist of the poem is Kassandra, a Trojan princess and a prophetess in whom no one believed in prophecy, taken prisoner by the Greeks after the fall of Troy.

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