Entertainment / Literature / Sestet: (1) The last part of an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet, it consists of six lines that rhyme with a varying pattern. Common rhyme patterns include CDECDE or CDCCDC. See sonnet, below. (2) Any six-line stanza or a six-line unit of poetry.
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Lifestyle / Poetry / Tercet, Terzet: a rhyming triplet, found in sequences such as: aaa bbb (for example, Thomas Hardy's 'The Convergence of the Twain'), aba cdc (where b and d are unrhyming), abc abc (repeated), aba bcb (interlaced or l MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Italian Sonnet: Another term for a Petrarchan sonnet. See discussion under sonnet. MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Curtal Sonnet: A short sonnet devised by gerard manley hopkins that maintains the proportions of the italian form (6:4.5 to 8:6), substituting two six-stress tercets for two quatrains in the octave (rhyming abc abc) MORE
Lifestyle / Poetry / Petrachan Sonnet: A fourteen-line poem with two sections, an octave (eight-line stanza rhyming abbaabba), and a sestet (six-line-stanza rhyming cdcdcd or cdecde). Examples are john milton's 'when i consider how my ligh MORE