sestet
- noun
- /sɛˈstɛt/
- Literature
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sesteto
- Thus, the final sestet carries sonic hints of the first.
Examples
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Then the final sestet reflects the first two stanzas in a kind of skewed symmetry.
Blog text (6) -
In eight instances, the necessary so clause, the topic half of the simile, is deferred to the ninth line or sestet of an Italian sonnet.
Academic text (2005) -
Although Jane says, "I am not thinking, at this early stage, of octave-sestet divisions,"
Academic text (2013) -
The sestet was to apologize for the quatrains, which were written simply through a wish to put into verse his experience of the animal sensation.
Academic text (2005) -
The second rhyme is not encountered until the end of line 4, and even at that point, no very strong sense of closure is achieved because alternation can be extended, for example, into a sestet, without disrupting the pattern.
Academic text (2003) -
In both, the sestet is more or less unitary, making a point about the attractiveness (and, in Byron's case, the temporary somnolence) of a hero.
Academic text (2003) -
Nevertheless, beyond those narratized prefacing vehicles, there is almost an indecipherable interiority to be found in the sonnets' sestet or topic clause.
Academic text (2005) -
Ottava rima works well in this way, for its couplet has the potential of an incendiary device, waiting to explode the sestet's bombast.
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A Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave and a sestet at the end, which provides a resolution to the poem.
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The final sestet of the poem beautifully encapsulates the themes introduced in the earlier stanzas.
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Etymology
The word sestet comes from Italian and Latin roots that mean 'six', the same idea you see in the English word sextet and the number 'six'. So in poetry a sestet is a group of six lines, often the final six lines that answer or change the poem's first part.