It is an odd sonnet, the sestet coming before the octave. From Wordnik.com. [The importance of enjoyment ...] Reference
Speaking of names, sestet is another exceptional case: I looked it up. From Wordnik.com. [The Sestet and the Sextrain | miscellani.org] Reference
TERCET, a group of three lines, especially in the sestet of the Italian sonnet, 102, 120. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
When he had given the dossier back to her the octet had sprouted a sestet — rather a good one. From Wordnik.com. [Presumption of Death]
It's like the twist where you go into the sestet with "but", it's much harder to go up from there than down. From Wordnik.com. [Another Shelter Review] Reference
Most people only know the sestet and leave out part of that, and thus fail to recognize this as an Italian Sonnet. From Wordnik.com. [The New Colossus | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
In the sestet usually the first line rhymes with the fourth, the second with the fifth and the third with the sixth. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
At the opening of the sestet, the poet stops referring to the priests as "they" and, instead, apostrophizes them as "ye.". From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
And he ends the sestet by mentioning the mundane work he wants to abandon for the sublime enjoyment of the warm, spring day. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
This innovative sonnet sections itself into two quatrains and a sestet, making it a gentle melding of the English and Italian sonnets. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
The sestet continues: Nevertheless, do not let the memory of me become a burden, especially if you ever learn what was in my living thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Instead of marking the transition from octave to sestet with the traditional change in rhyme, the poet shifts from enjambed to endstopped lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
As a whole the sonnet contains one idea, which in the octave is general, in the sestet specific, for the sestet expresses the conclusion of the octave. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The division of the sestet into two distinct tercets is very rarely maintained; and that of the octave into quatrains is frequently neglected with impunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
Actually, the apparent "break" after the octave is spanned by suspended grammar (as in Milton's Sonnet X), the "you" of address having been deferred until the sestet. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Miltonic?] Reference
The octet was finished and the first two lines of the sestet. From Wordnik.com. [Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches] Reference
In the sestet portion of the poem, she uses a CDEECD pattern. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
The octave is made up of two quatrains and the sestet of two tercets. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
In sestet the first three lines have alternatives of regular rhythm, thus. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
'The sestet of the Purcell sonnet is not so clearly worked out as I could wish. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
The sestet of the Purcell sonnet is not so clearly worked out as I could wish. From Wordnik.com. [Notes] Reference
The second portion has six lines with a different rhyming scheme called a sestet. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
When this sonnet was printed by Coleridge in 1796 the sestet was made to run thus. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays] Reference
Spout line for line, both octave and sestet, Wordsworth's sonnet "The World is Too Much with Us.". From Wordnik.com. [Lindsay Mannering: Where Whiplash Meets Wordsworth] Reference
The rhymes of the first two quatrains are usually the same; those of the sestet are variously arranged. From Wordnik.com. [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference
As already said, these liberties are permitted, for the sestet is not under such arbitrary regulations as the octave. From Wordnik.com. [Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur] Reference
Despite the greater difficulty of the Petrarchan rhyme-scheme, the more open pattern of the sestet suits her narrative purpose. From Wordnik.com. [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference
The possible combinations are infinite, but the law of logical relation between octave and sestet, premise and conclusion, is immutable. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
Its ebbing surges in the "sestet" roll. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
I have improved the sestet. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published] Reference
Its ebbing surges in the sestet roll. From Wordnik.com. [The Sonnet's Voice] Reference
The sestet continues in the first tercet. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of English Versification] Reference
1 sestet. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph Haydn]
"As" -- for the octave -- and "So" -- for the sestet -- (see Andrew Lang's "The. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Poetry] Reference
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