| LC control no. | sh2013000258 |
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| Topical heading | Sestets |
| See also | Poetry |
| Found in | Logan, J.D. A rosary of renunciation : six sestets with a little prose harmony on mystical union with the ideal beauty, 1925. Beurle, N.L. Sestet of longing, 1929. Wright, C. Sestets, 2009. Kennedy, X.J. The Longman dict. of literary terms, c2006 (Sestet. A poem, stanza, or unit of six lines of verse. The term usually applies to Italian sonnets to indicate the final six-line section of the poem, as distinct from the octave (the first eight lines). Other than the sonnet, British and American writers have infrequently opted for a six-line stanza structure.) Baldick, C. The Oxford dict. of literary terms, 2008 (sestet: A group of six lines forming the second part of a sonnet (in its Italian or Petrarchan form), following the opening octave. More rarely, the term may refer to a stanza of six lines (also called a sexain, sextain, or sextet), such as the Burns stanza or the stanza used in a sestina.) Quinn, E. A dict. of literary and thematic terms, c1999 (sestet: A poem or stanza of six lines. The term is also used to describe the final six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet, in which the sestet offers a response to the proposition in the first eight lines.) |
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