Definition of Sestet. Meaning of Sestet. Synonyms of Sestet

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Definition of Sestet

Sestet
Sestet Ses*tet", n. [It. sestetto, fr. sesto sixth, L. sextus, fr. sex six.] 1. (Mus.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor. [Written also sestett, sestette.] 2. (Poet.) The last six lines of a sonnet.

Meaning of Sestet from wikipedia

- 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...
- sestet. The rhyme scheme for the octave is typically ABBAABBA. The sestet is more flexible. Petrarch typically used CDECDE or CDCDCD for the sestet....
- 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...
- 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...
- sonnet shrunk proportionally. The octave of a sonnet becomes a sestet and the sestet a quatrain plus an additional "tail piece". That is, the first eight...