sestet
IPA: sɛstˈɛt
noun
- (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
- (poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.
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Examples of "sestet" in Sentences
- Most people only know the sestet and leave out part of that, and thus fail to recognize this as an Italian Sonnet.
- And he ends the sestet by mentioning the mundane work he wants to abandon for the sublime enjoyment of the warm, spring day.
- This innovative sonnet sections itself into two quatrains and a sestet, making it a gentle melding of the English and Italian sonnets.
- In the second sestet addressing the alluring features of the night, he finds the night too wonderful and May flowers too sweet to remain inside just mundanely sleeping.
- Petrarch, of course, writes his sonnets in two parts: an octave and a sestet — in which the first eight lines pose a problem that the remaining six lines attempt to resolve.
- The work consists of 15 sonnets, all of which follow the Italian rhyme scheme and the division into octave and sestet, and each new poem takes up where the last one left off.
- Great Regulars: The sonnet is powered by the momentum established in the sestet, and somehow maintains the intensity of its indignation through the weaker octet--because the political emotion is genuine.
- Notice the ways in which the problem/argument is posited in the octave and the solution/response is presented in the sestet; moreover, to further the problem/argument, Hopkins relies heavily upon cacophony in the octave but turns heavily to euphony in the sestet.
- If the lover does in fact express his love via a sonnet, then the octave (represented here by the interrogative symbol raised to the eighth power) might encode the query: “Who do I love?” — to which the sestet (represented here by the letter U raised to the sixth power) might encode the reply: “You!”
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