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....

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...

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...

and then followed by a concluding sestet. The octet is rhymed after Shakespearean sonnets (ABAB CDCD), while the sestet follows rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan...

three-quarters of its original length. Thus the octave of a sonnet becomes a sestet and the sestet a quatrain plus an additional "tail piece". That is, the first eight...

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...

in which the sonnet consisted of two quatrains (four-line stanzas) and a sestet (a six-line stanza). However, several rhythmic and structural patterns as...

the most common being CDCDCD, especially within the final six lines (or sestet), is common. The English (or Shakespearean) sonnet follows the rhyme scheme...

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...

octave and then conjuring what appears to be a happier image in the last sestet. Murdo William McRae notes two characteristics of the internal structure...

such as "To a Mouse" Sestain: AABBCC, ABABCC, AABCCB, AAABAB, and others Sestet: various schemes depending on the country Sestina: ABCDEF FAEBDC CFDABE...

concluding quatrain. A tercet may also form the separate halves of the ending sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet, where the rhyme scheme is ABBAABBACDCCDC, as in...

sestet with various rhyme schemes. Petrarch's poems never ended in a rhyming couplet. Wyatt employs the Petrarchan octave, but his most common sestet...

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...

consists of two parts; an octave and a sestet. The octave can be broken down into two quatrains; likewise, the sestet is made up of two tercets. The octave...

abba abba, followed by a "sestet" with various rhyme schemes. Wyatt employs the Petrarchan octave, but his most common sestet scheme is cddc ee. Wyatt...

a traditional Petrarchan sonnet, the poem is divided into an octave and sestet. However, its rhyme scheme is neither that of a Petrarchan nor English sonnet...

ISBN 9780374189662. Archived from the original on 2023-10-06. Retrieved 2023-10-06. Sestets Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009. Outtakes Sarabande, 2010. Bye-and-Bye: Selected...

stanzas, beginning with an ABAB rhyme scheme and ending with a Miltonic sestet (1st and 5th stanzas CDEDCE, 2nd stanza CDECED, and 3rd and 4th stanzas...

sexagesimal sext- sixth Latin sextus bissextile, bissextus, semisextile, sestet, sestina, Sext, sextain, sextan, sextans, sextant, sextary, sextic, sextile...

sixtieth sexagesimal sextus sext- sixth bissextile, bissextus, semisextile, sestet, sestina, Sext, sextain, sextan, sextans, sextant, sextary, sextic, sextile...

(the first eight lines) usually states and develops the subject, while the sestet (the last six lines) winds up to a climax. Thus a change in emphasis, known...

Union. The poem is a narrative made up of four six-line stanzas, known as sestets. Poe uses the term shadow in the middle of each stanza. The meaning of...

critics refer to particular parts of this poem either as an octave and a sestet (following the style of the Petrarchan sonnet, with a prominent example...

The Shadorma is a poetic form consisting of a six-line stanza (or sestet) that originated from Spain. Each stanza has a syllable count of three syllables...

fivesome, pentad, quint, quintet, quintuplet 6 Six half dozen, hexad, sestet, sextet, sextuplet, sise 7 Seven heptad, septet, septuple, walking stick...

does not possess the power to heal or save things, and concludes with a sestet of the speaker saying that even though she may face hardships, she would...

organization of the Italian sonnet. In that case the term "octave" and "sestet" are commonly used to refer to the sonnet's first eight lines followed by...