Definition of Sestet Sestet can be defined as, “A second division of an Italian sonnet, as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet (consisting of an octave) succeeded by a sestet, of six lines”. or “A poem or stanza containing six lines” or “A group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet”. A sestet poem normally follows the rhyming scheme abcabc however this is not mandatory for all sestet poetry. Italian sonnets from the early periods, and in particular those of Dante, often follows the rhyming scheme abccba. History and Origin Sestet has been derived from Italian sestetto, from sesto sixth, from Latin sextus, from sex..
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