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sestet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sextet, sextette |
| Type of | musical organization, musical organisation, musical group |
sestet::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sextet, sextette |
| Type of | opus, composition, piece of music, musical composition, piece |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | stanza |
Examples of sestet
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The rhyme scheme for the octave is typically a b b a a b b a. The sestet is more flexible.
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The octave and sestet have special functions in a Petrarchan sonnet.
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The Italian or Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave and a sestet.
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At this point, the sonnet performs its volta or turn, leading to the final six lines, or sestet.
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Petrarch typically used c d e c d e or c d c d c d for the sestet.
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The octave presents an idea to be contrasted by the ending sestet.
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While the poem as a whole aims at praising love, the focus shifts at the break between octave and sestet.
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At the turn of the sonnet, at the hinge of the octave and the sestet, we move from the need to remember to the need to forget.
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The sestet, with either two or three different rhymes, uses its first tercet to reflect on the theme and the last to conclude.
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- Six: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
- Sextet: six performers or singers who perform together
- Sextet: a set of six similar things considered as a unit
- A rhythmic group of six lines of verse
- 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 was the Italian poet, Petrarch. ...
- The last six lines of a poem
- A six-line stanza or unit of poetry. Shakespearean sonnet: A fourteen-line poem written in iambic pentameter, composed of three quatrains and a couplet rhyming abab cdcd efef gg.
- A stanza consisting of exactly six lines.
- The last six lines of a Petrarchan (or Italian) sonnet. The sestet, from the Latin word for six, usually has a rhyme scheme of cdecde. A thought or idea that is introduced in the first eight lines, octave, of the poem is sometimes further developed in the sestet.
