- A
sestet is six
lines of
poetry forming a
stanza or
complete poem. A
sestet is also the name
given to the
second division of an
Italian sonnet (as opposed...
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sestet. The
rhyme scheme for the
octave is
typically ABBAABBA. The
sestet is more flexible.
Petrarch typically used
CDECDE or
CDCDCD for the
sestet....
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contrasting sestet. In
traditional Italian sonnets the
octave always ends with a
conclusion of one idea,
giving way to
another idea in the
sestet. Some English...
- last six
lines (
sestet) to
answer the
first eight lines (octave). The
first eight lines (octave) are the
problems and the next six (
sestet) are the solutions...
- that
there should be no
connection in
rhyme between the
octave and the
sestet. Two
themes of the "Ozymandias"
poems are the
inevitable decline of rulers...
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Ghazal Quatorzain Quatrain Quintain Rhyme royal Sapphic stanza Sestain Sestet Sonnet Tail
rhyme Tercet Triolet Terza rima
Verse paragraph Villanelle Rhymes...
- a
concluding sestet. As far as
rhyme scheme, the
octet is
rhymed after the Shakespearean/Elizabethan (ABAB CDCD) form,
while the
sestet follows the Petrarchan/Italian...
-
sestet does
something different: it
makes a swift,
wonderfully compact turn on the
hidden meanings of but and yet and wait for a moment. The
sestet answers...
- the most
common being CDCDCD,
especially within the
final six
lines (or
sestet), is common. The
English (or Shakespearean)
sonnet follows the
rhyme scheme...
- che per la via", with two
sestets (AABAAB AABAAB) and two
quatrains (CDDC CDDC), and Ch. VIII, "Morte villana", with two
sestets (AABBBA AABBBA) and two...