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Italian sonnet's ending
Answer for the clue "Italian sonnet's ending ", 6 letters:
sestet
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sestet \Ses*tet"\, n. [It. sestetto, fr. sesto sixth, L. sextus, fr. sex six.] (Mus.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor . [Written also sestett , sestette .] (Poet.) The last six lines of a sonnet. ...
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.