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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Sestet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		The sestet should mark the turn of emotion in the sonnet; as a rule it may be said, that the octave having been more or less objective, in the sestet reflection should make its appearance, with a tendency to the subjective manner.
		The beginning of the sestet is known as the volta, and it introduces a pronounced change in tone in the sonnet; the sestet's purpose as a whole is to make a comment on the problem or to apply a solution to it.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sestet (986 words)

	Sonnet - LoveToKnow 1911
		With regard to the Petrarchan sonnet, all critics are perhaps now agreed that, while the form of the octave is invariable, the form of the sestet is absolutely free, save that the emotions should govern the arrangement of the verses.
		But as regards the division between octave and sestet, Mark Pattison says, with great boldness, but perhaps with truth, that by blending octave with sestet Milton missed the very object and end of the Petrarchan scheme.
		If this were so; it would unquestionably be a serious impeachment of the Shakespearean sonnet, for, save in the poetry of ingenuity, no metric arrangement is otherwise than bad unless it be the result of a deep metrical necessity.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sonnet (729 words)

	The Canon
		The sestet may be on two rhymes or three, that is to say, the first, third and fifth lines must rhyme together, and the second, fourth and sixth; or the first, second and third with the third, fourth and fifth.
		Rhymes of the sestet must not be on the same combination of consonants nor on the same vowel sounds as those in the octet.
		When the octet content overflows into the second line of the sestet, the proper sonnet system begins to be destroyed, while a poem in which the octet content is carried further than the second line of the sestet ceases to be a sonnet.
	www.sonnets.org /canon.htm (1480 words)

	Sestet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Early Italian sonnets, and in particular those of Dante, often close with the rhyme-arrangement abc cba; but in languages where the sonority of syllables is not so great as it is in Italian, it is dangerous to leave a period of five lines between one rhyme and another.
		The sestet should mark the turn of emotion in the sonnet; as a rule it may be said, that the octave having been more or less objective, in the sestet reflection should make its appearance, with a tendency to the subjective manner.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sestet (360 words)

	The Sonnet
		Its fourteen lines break into an octave (or octet), which usually rhymes abbaabba, but which may sometimes be abbacddc or even (rarely) abababab; and a sestet, which may rhyme xyzxyz or xyxyxy, or any of the multiple variations possible using only two or three rhyme-sounds.
		In other words, the poet is using the structure of the poem as part of the language act: we will find the "meaning" not only in the words, but partly in their pattern as well.
		The Italian form, in some ways the simpler of the two, usually projects and develops a subject in the octave, then executes a turn at the beginning of the sestet, which means that the sestet must in some way release the tension built up in the octave.
	www.utm.edu /departments/english/everett/sonnet.htm (574 words)

	Petrarchan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last six lines make up a sestet and may consist be one of two rhyme schemes: 1) c d d c e e or 2) c d e c d e.
		It traditionally consists of fourteen lines of iambic pentameter, which are divided into an octave, which is a section of eight lines with a rhyme scheme patterned ABBA ABBA, and a sestet, which is a section of six lines.
		The beginning of the sestet is known as the volta, and it introduces a pronounced change in tone in the sonnet; the sestet's purpose as a whole is to make a comment on the problem or to apply a solution to it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petrarchan (645 words)

	Anodyne of Autumn: a reading by Phillip A. Ellis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Of the four sestets, she is addressed in the second and fourth, and it is through the fourth, in the phrase "Thy breasts," (l.
		The basic rhyme scheme of any given sestet is aabccb, with the 'b' lines being longer than the other couplets, which have six syllables per line.
		The third sestet is interesting in that it equates the "western wold or hill" (l.
	www.eldritchdark.com /misc/readings/anodyne_of_autumn.html (474 words)

	Frost's "The Oven Bird" Essay
		While he uses the same form and subject as Wordsworth, he creates his own rhyme scheme, breaking from the Petrarchan form used by Wordsworth and showing that the material inside the casing of this sonnet is not a traditional nature poem.
		The "diminished thing" is the state of the nature image found in the sestet, which is elaborated thematically as well as structurally.
		The obvious factor that makes the sestet structurally diminished from the octave is the absence of two lines.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~siloh/homepage/essay5.html (1661 words)

	The Relation of Thought and Emotion in "Surprised by Joy"
		Thus, the sestet resolves the narrator's unexpected joy into the grief dictated by his conviction that the deceased is completely lost to him.
		In the sestet, the narrator's instinctive emotional state is ended by the returning thought of his loss.
		Wordsworth uses the organization of the octave and the sestet to represent the opposing ideas of chaos and order, which are related to the nature of the emotion in these sections.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Depts/WritingCenter/starns.html (1304 words)

	Petrarchan sonnet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Petrarchan sonnet, also called the Italian sonnet, is a sonnet comprising an octave and a closing sestet.
		The sonnet has a volta between the octave and the sestet.
		This volta, or 'change', means that the subject or viewpoint or other important aspect of the sonnet will change between the opening octave and closing sestet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Petrarchan_sonnet (185 words)

	Untitled Document
		NB in Wyatt's hands, the sestet often rhymes cddcee, the concluding couplet indicating that the Petrarchan form is already breaking down towards the English form.
		The couplet is often a summary of or a commentary on the preceding quatrains, or an epigrammatic close.
		Note that couplets are much more compact than are sestets; instead of a turn of thought in the middle part of the poem, we get a grand build-up to a couplet.
	flash.lakeheadu.ca /~jrichard/sonnetnotes.html (1102 words)

	The Literary Encyclopedia: Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Petrarchan, or Italian, sonnet is divided into an octave which rhymes a b b a, a b b a, and a sestet which usually rhymes c d e c d e, or c d c d c d.
		The sestet usually replies to the argument of the octet.
		The Miltonic sonnet follows the Petrarchan but without significant break in meaning between the octave and sestet.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /glossaryMZ.php (1937 words)

	SidneyPetrarch
		A quatrain is a stanza of four lines; a sestet is a stanza of six lines.
		Traditionally the first quatrain introduces the subject, the second complicates the subject, and the sestet resolves or alters the subject in some way.
		Traditionally the poet seeks to make the rhymes in the sestet as different as possible from the two quatrains.
	www.dbu.edu /mitchell/sidneype.htm (387 words)

	Lowell, Robert: Skunk Hour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It is composed of 8 sestets with an internal rhyming scheme in each sestet that can only be called irregular from sestet to sestet.
		Enter the titular skunks: as a parenthetical predicate to the final line of the preceding sestet ("nobody's here --"), the poet corrects the apparently psychological meaning of "nobody's here --" to refer to physical presence, noting that in fact there is someone here, namely a family of skunks.
		The final two sestets are among the most visually powerful images in poetry with the paradoxically high drama one would not expect from skunks.
	endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/lowell12315-des-.html (763 words)

	sonnet
		They work also in a two part division of thought, kind of like a problem and then a solution or the ease of tension to a situation in the sestet (commonly) or summary in the couplet.
		The subject of Yeats' poem is generally agreed to be the rape of Leda by Zeus, disguised as a swan.
		The content then is taken from Greek mythology and plays a role in the the second division of thought in the sestet.
	www.wsu.edu /~hughesc/sonnet.htm (707 words)

	Poetry Form - The Sestina.
		The first line of each sestet after the first ends with the same word as the one that ended the last line of the sestet before it.
		Sometimes a writer finds that a later stanza is a much stronger one than her first one, and she wants to move that later stanza to the start of the poem.
		Simply move as a block your strong stanza and all the sestets that follow it (down to and not including the tercet).
	www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/form/sestina.htm (1329 words)

	LitGloss - S
		The six words at the end of the first sestet's lines must also appear at the ends of the other five sestets, in varying order.
		Common rhyme patterns in the sestet are cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdccdc.
		Very often the octave presents a situation, attitude, or problem that the sestet comments upon or resolves, as in John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer." The English sonnet, also known as the Shakespearean sonnet, is organized into three quatrains and a couplet, which typically rhyme abab cdcd efef gg.
	bcs.bedfordstmartins.com /litgloss/LitGlosscode/litgloss_s.html (1518 words)

	English 542: Astrophil & Stella
		The sestet is filled with images but is not elevated in diction.
		The poet contrasts Stella's impassiveness before his "storms" (lines 1-4) with her weeping over a "fable" of injured love (5-8), and questions in the sestet why she should be more affected by a "false" story than by her lover's true condition.
		The octave is strongly end-stopped, certainly in proof that he never enjoyed the inspiration of "Aganippe well"; the sestet opens with a double enjambement (perhaps to demonstrate the poetic "ease" that comes over him under the influence of his true inspiration (guess who!) Stella.
	www.louisville.edu /a-s/english/dale/542/astro-summ.htm (1139 words)

	Quotations about the Sonnet
		In the Petrarchan sonnet the problem is often solved by reasoned perception or by a relatively expansive and formal meditative process, for the sestet allows enough room for the enacting of reasonable kinds of resolutions.
		The sestet, in turn, leads out of the octave and, if the closing couplet is avoided, assures a commendable variety within the uniformity to the poem as a whole.
		Such matters of relationship between form and content are, however, susceptible of considerable control in the hands of a skilled poet, and the ultimate artistic effect in any given instance may override theoretical considerations in achievement of integrity.
	www.ajdrake.com /e252_fall_04/materials/guides/poetry_quotes.htm (1431 words)

	Article by Elizabeth Hale
		But the sestet immediately undercuts this hopefulness by returning us to the issue in hand, the fact that Longfellow is approaching middle age ("half of my life is gone"), and pushes the consequences of this further.
		In the sestet Longfellow denies himself and the reader the solace that the sonnet form sets us up to expect, by using the sestet's opening lines to turn us, not towards a comforting reflection and resolution of the problem of the octave, but further back into the despair that he feels.
		The sestet jars somewhat because of its use of "poetic" language: we are moved abruptly from simple plain language of the emotions to an unconvincing extended image of the past:
	www.otago.ac.nz /DeepSouth/vol1no1/hale1.html (1687 words)

	Definition of sestet - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
		Learn more about "sestet" and related topics at Britannica.com
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	www.merriam-webster.com /dictionary/sestet (57 words)

	PlanetPapers - Sonnets from the Portuguese, Remember and My Last Duchess: love and relationships
		This allows for a change in tone or mood as the sonnet is broken down into two sections, the octave and the sestet, containing eight and six lines respectively.
		The portrayal of love and relationships in the sestet presents to the reader a comparison to poetic voices’ past.
		The exclamation mark shows how bold this statement really is and enforces how serious the love and the relationship is, however it may also illustrate the excitement and joy felt and reiterated by the poetic voice.
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/5059.php (3470 words)

	Week Three Notes
		Rather than posing a problem in the octave and then working the problem out in the sestet, Frost makes an observation in the octave that poses a philosophical problem for him in the sestet.
		So, the first stanza is filled with incongruous images, and it's this reversal of expectations that the speaker observes that causes him to wonder in the sestet if there is a controlling power behind on this irony.
		Specific words in the poem suggest that these two bugs are being controlled -- "Mixed," "brought" and "steered" for example all suggest that these two bugs are not acting on their own but are being manipulated.
	staff.jccc.net /jmcward/lit/130wk3.htm (750 words)

	Sonnets are meant to be read aloud
		The Italian form usually projects and develops a subject in the octave, then executes a turn at the beginning of the sestet, which means that the sestet must in some way release the tension built up in the octave.
		The octave bears the burden; a doubt, a problem, a reflection, a query, an historical statement, a cry of indignation or desire, a vision of the ideal.
		The sestet eases the load, resolves the problem or doubt, answers the query, solaces the yearning, realizes the vision." Again it might be said that the octave presents the narrative, states the proposition or raises a question; the sestet drives home the narrative by making an abstract comment, applies the proposition, or solves the problem.
	faculty.winthrop.edu /kosterj/engl203/sonnettips.htm (1065 words)

	Sonnet - Cunnan
		The rhyming scheme of the sestet is more flexible, but common variations are cdcdcd and cdecde.
		In this form it is usual for the poet to create two differing moods in the octet and sestet.
		One common method is for the octet to state a conundrum and the sestet to give the resolution.
	cunnan.sca.org.au /index.php?title=Sonnet&redirect=no (480 words)

	Glossary of Poetic Terms from BOB'S BYWAY, Letter S
		Shakespearean sonnet, the lines are grouped in three quatrains (with six alternating rhymes) followed by a detached rhymed couplet which is usually epigrammatic.
		The names given to describe the number of lines in a stanzaic unit, such as: couplet (2), tercet (3), quatrain (4), quintet (5), sestet (6), septet (7), and octave (8).
		Some stanzas follow a set rhyme scheme and meter in addition to the number of lines and are given specific names to describe them, such as, ballad meter, ottava rima, rhyme royal, terza rima, and Spenserian stanza.
	www.poeticbyway.com /gl-s.html (2844 words)

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