sestet

How To Use sestet In A Sentence

• 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. Argument in verse
• This innovative sonnet sections itself into two quatrains and a sestet, making it a gentle melding of the English and Italian sonnets. Great Regulars: She then hears a voice as she attempts
• 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!” Quick Review 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• And he ends the sestet by mentioning the mundane work he wants to abandon for the sublime enjoyment of the warm, spring day. Archive 2009-06-01
• 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. Archive 2009-02-01
• Or as Grafton puts it, in rhyming sestets, the footnote has the power to ‘buttress and undermine, at one and the same time’.
• 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. Quick Review 07 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
• The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.
• The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.
• I was struck with Lord Byron's eyes at the time when he was listening to a sestetto in Mayer's opera of Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English