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Group of two trios
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sestet
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A sestet is the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet (as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet), which must consist of an octave , of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines. The first documented user of this poetical form ...
Usage examples of sestet.
The sestet ended in a drinking-shop not far from the Souk or Socco, over glasses of warmish pastis.
The octave typically introduces the theme or problem, with the sestet providing the resolution.
She could find no turn for the sestet to take, no epigram, no change of mood.
The octave for the public event, the sestet for the unchanging Marius or Mario.
It has fourteen lines that divide into an octave of a rhyme scheme ABBA ABBA and a sestet CDC DCD, really two tercets.
The sestet which followed, to complete the sonnet, was less derivative and therefore less successful, Dame Beatrice thought.