Sestets

Word SESTETS
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What do we mean by sestets?

A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.

The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.

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The word "sestets" in example sentences

It is written in sestets of iambic tetrameter and trimeter. ❋ Unknown (1792)

And yet, most poetry still depends on literary forms with exacting requirements, such as haikus, sestets and sonnets. ❋ Jonah Lehrer (2011)

Here, it is in three sestets and an separate couplet; the effect is that of an expanded sonnet. ❋ Unknown (1621)

In the Shakespearean sonnet, the sestets describe a problem or situation that is repeated in each sestet with some variation; the remaining couplet offers a summary, usually with a turn of thought. " ❋ Unknown (2009)

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