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How to use sestet in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sestet? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
In the sestet we hear his revealingly equivocal reply to the proffered charge of aloofness.
The beginning octave of this sonnet fits poorly with the sestet.
Polyptoton, the device which repeats the same word in a different grammatical case, continues to enliven the emotional interplay in the sestet.
The Petrarchan sonnet has an octet and a sestet, with a rhyme scheme of abba abba and cdcdcd.
The characterisation shifts in the sestet, heralded by that vivid antithesis of the grey Soul and the green World.
Metaphorical emphasis shifts in the sestet, while still harmonising with notions to do with leasehold.
We find a verse made by adding a quatrain to a couplet, a-b-a-b-c-c, a grouping which looks very like the latter part, the sestet, of a Shakespearean sonnet.
Petrarchan sonnets are typically composed of an octave and sestet rhyme pattern.
This sestet is sharpened by Robert's characteristic division of the six lines into two separate triplets, a structure favoured by Philip Sidney in Astrophil and Stella.
Wyatt employs the Petrarchan octave, but his most common sestet scheme is cddc ee.
Examples from Classical Literature
Wordsworth also showed no regard for the careful division of thought between octave and sestet.
But the very first words of the sestet show the development in the thought.
Most critics prefer those forms of sestet which avoid a final riming couplet.
While following the Italian rime-schemes, however, he was not careful to observe any division between octave and sestet.
The more important chamber compositions include a sestet for piano and strings, a trio, and a sonata for violincello and piano.
In the sestet usually the first line rhymes with the fourth, the second with the fifth and the third with the sixth.
One of these must be in the octave and the other in the sestet.
The octet was finished and the first two lines of the sestet.
And these sounds do not occur twice but four times in this two-part sonnet which divides into two seven-line parts by punctuation, but into octet and sestet by end rhyme.
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