sestet

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[62] The rime sounds of the octave and those of the sestet should be harmonious but not closely similar 62] Elaborate rules for the sonnet are given by William Sharp in the introduction to his Sonnets of the Century, and by Mark Pattison in the introduction to his edition of Milton's sonnets.

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  1. noun A group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet.
  2. noun A poem or stanza containing six lines.

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  • She could find no turn for the sestet to take, no epigram, no change of mood. —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • So there was the turn she had vainly sought for the sestet! —  Gaudy Night Dorothy L Sayers -3rd Lord Peter WImsey/Harriet Vane book
  • The twists and turns associated with the move from octave to sestet and to final couplet make them a useful and dynamic form for many subjects. —  LearnHub Activities
  • "Flight", "Town and Country", "The Voice", are eloquent of what they leave untold; and the climax of "Retrospect And I should sleep, and I should sleep or the sestet of "Waikiki", or the whole fainting sonnet entitled "A Memory", belong to the nadir of vitality. —  The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke
  • [62] The rime sounds of the octave and those of the sestet should be harmonious but not closely similar 62] Elaborate rules for the sonnet are given by William Sharp in the introduction to his Sonnets of the Century, and by Mark Pattison in the introduction to his edition of Milton's sonnets. —  The Principles of English Versification
 

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  1. Italian sestetto, from sesto, sixth, from Latin sextus; see s(w)eks in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Italian sestetto, diminutive of sesto, sixth, from Latin sextus, sixth, from sex, six: see sixth, six.
 

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