How To Use Sestet In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Or as Grafton puts it, in rhyming sestets, the footnote has the power to ‘buttress and undermine, at one and the same time’.
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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
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The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.
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The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.
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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
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Je fus frappé des yeux de Lord Byron au moment où il écoutait un sestetto d'un opéra de
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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The octave does not seem to me very clearly put, and the sestet does not emphasize in a sufficiently striking way the idea which the prose sketch conveyed to me, -- that of Keats's special privilege in early death: viz., the lovely monumentalized image he bequeathed to us of the young poet.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Thus the sonnet, which had been an octave of enclosed or alternate rhymes, followed by a sestette of interlaced tercets, was now changed to a series of three quatrains with differing sets of alternate rhymes in each, at the close of which the insidious couplet succeeded in establishing itself.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles Phillis - Licia
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We see the revered exegete reject metred verse - the sestet, the tercet ...
Times, Sunday Times
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She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
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He had wheeled round from her, carried away in the triumph and rapture of the sestette.
The Divine Fire
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A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.
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The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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In the sestet we hear his revealingly equivocal reply to the proffered charge of aloofness.
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Here is another link -- José de Herédia, and his jewelled and chiselled sonnets -- the "Antique Medal" with its peerless sestette, which combines the essential meanings of Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn.
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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A ‘curtal [shortened] sonnet’ (G.M. Hopkins) consists of a sestet followed by a quatrain and a half-line tailpiece.
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It was a great surprise to find part of the sestette copied in the "Prose Writings" of Walt
Confessions of a Book-Lover
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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.
Archive 2009-06-01
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She will slip from dactyls to iambics, pentameter to trimeter, quatrains to sestets.
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We see the revered exegete reject metred verse - the sestet, the tercet ...
Times, Sunday Times
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You have much too great a habit of speaking of a special octave, sestette, or line.
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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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.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Most people only know the sestet and leave out part of that, and thus fail to recognize this as an Italian Sonnet.
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