Meaning & use
sestet
The final six lines of a sonnet, especially in the Italian or Petrarchan form.
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In the sestet, the poem shifts from describing the problem to offering a resolution.
Students were asked to identify the rhyme scheme used in the sonnet's sestet.
A note on using this word
A sestet follows the octave in a Petrarchan sonnet and often introduces a turn, or volta, in the poem's argument.
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