ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SESTET
From Italian sestetto, from sesto sixth, from Latin sextus, from sex six.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SESTET»
Discover the use of
sestet in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
sestet and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Literature Workbook
Each sonnet has fourteen lines and is divided into two stanzas: an octave (
consisting of eight lines) and a sestet (consisting of six lines). The octave is
further subdivided into two four-line quatrains and the sestet into two three-line
tercets.
Clara Calvo, Jean Jacques Weber, 2002
The octave in Milton's sonnets invariably rhymes abba, abba, after the Petrarchan
* model, but he allows himself considerable variety in the sestet, a variety justified
by his Italian sixteenth-century models, Bembo*, Tasso*, and — particularly ...
William Bridges Hunter, 1980
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Uniting Octave and
Sestet: Completing "The Cycle" of McKay's ...
This thesis examines Claude McKay's The Cycle (c. 1943) in relationship to how McKay's other sonnets have been received by scholars and the ways in which this collection speaks to fallacies concerning didactic art, African American views on ...
Cocoa Michelle Williams, 2007
Back | Home | Up | Next A Sestet is the name given to the second division of a
sonnet, which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of
six lines. In the usual course the rhymes are arranged abc abc, but this is not ...
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The Subtext of Form in the English Renaissance: Proportion ...
In both versions printed here the volto at line 9 is clearly evident, signaled by the
word Ma (but) and dividing the text into an octave and a sestet."' The eight lines of
the octave rhyme ababab ab; the six lines of the sestet rhyme cdc dc d.n What I ...
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Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies
In Models 7-9, just the first line of the sestet is indented; consequently, these
models clearly display themselves as sonnets. (ln Model 9, extra leading of this
verse compounds the effect.) Model 10 (for "Thou art indeed just, Lord", now on a
...
Raimonda Modiano, Leroy Searle, Peter L. Shillingsburg, 2004
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A Book of the Sonnet: Poems and Criticism
(13) While the sonnet must have unity, there must be a clear break between the
octet and the sestet. ... / 74 / There are occasions upon which the octet content
may be allowed to overflow into the first line of the sestet; but such overflow
should ...
Martin Kallich, Jack C. Gray, Robert M. Rodney, 1973
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A Mirror for Lovers: Shake-speare's Sonnets as Curious ...
The octave and sestet operate on two somewhat contradictory planes of
argument. Though 1.4's talk of “sweet semblance” and the references to
leaseholds that need “find no determination” (6) do loosely link Q1 and Q2 to the
resolve, ...
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Reading the Underthought: Jewish Hermeneutics and the ...
These repetitions continue to dominate the sestet, but there they appear to call for
distinctions—the spooling off ofopposing categories. Thus what the sestet is
saying (differentiation) appears to be contradicted by what it is doing (repetition).
Kinereth Meyer, Rachel Salmon Deshen, 2010
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Reading Modernist Poetry
into octave and sestet, and the octave and the sestet must come in that sequence
. We can signal the division visually, leaving a blank line, but fundamentally the
division is signalled aurally, by the rhyme scheme. If we see the lines as matter, ...
Michael H. Whitworth, 2010
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SESTET»
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sestet is used in the context of the following news items.
Alpine- Yuck Review
Following the success of their debut, A is for Alpine, Melbourne sestet, Alpine are back with their second album, Yuck. Not unlike their previous work, Yuck is a ... «hotpress.com, Jun 15»
Poem of the week: The Sheaves by Edwin Arlington Robinson
In the sestet's opening lines, we can hear Robinson's usual, low-key tone of voice as he alludes to “a land where all days are not fair”. That dry understatement ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Kobe Week: Mr. Bryant's Opus
The second part of a sonnet — the sestet — usually carries a more flexible rhyming pattern. As the sun sets on Kobe's final uno rhyme, whether he embarks on a ... «Mid Level Exceptional, Mar 15»
Revealed in verse
To me, the Italian sonnet, with its octave and sestet, is like a deep inhale and transformative exhale. If you are a lyric poet, as I am, it's a perfect form to both ... «Harvard Gazette, Mar 15»
Poem of the week: Access Visit by Rory Waterman
In the sestet, the tense changes to the present. Time has passed: the pub has a new name (more feminine and evocative, less redolent of authority) and ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
Three essays on 'Romeo and Juliet'.
Even before her tomb in Act V, he will pronounce a final sestet. Beside her he lays out Paris, the cadaver of the Petrarchist aesthetic, now truly dead. HENCE ... «The Fortnightly Review, Dec 14»
Poem of the week: Cat by John Gallas
This metaphor continues, after the cat has become the human lover in the sestet, in the depiction of the woman's look, which, “deep and cold, split-slices like a ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
Poem of the week: The Sea and the Skylark by Gerard Manley …
Hopkins looks town-wards in the sestet, condemning human intrusion with a mix of frothily light and grittily heavy adjectives (“shallow”, “frail”, “sordid”, “turbid”) ... «The Guardian, Sep 14»
K-pop boy band Beast's comeback record breaks new ground
Written by Yong Junhyung, the rapper of the sestet, and his frequent collaborator Kim Tae Joo, “Good Luck” is a heartbreak song with the refrain addressing the ... «Inquirer.net, Jul 14»
10 Terms You Need to Know to Understand Poetry
... (so-called because Petrarch was its greatest practitioner), which consists of an octave (eight lines rhyming abbaabba) and a sestet (six lines rhyming cdecde). «Huffington Post, Apr 14»
