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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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