six performers or singers who perform together
a set of six similar things considered as a unit
a musical composition written for six performers
a rhythmic group of six lines of verse
a stanza that is comprised of six lines
The final six lines of a sonnet. A typical ending for the Petrarchan sestet is cde cde but there are many variations. The Shakespearean sonnet invariably rhymes the sestet efef gg.
the final six lines of a petrarchan sonnet with a rhyme scheme of cdecde or another combination of three rhymes. Usually the sestet deals with a problem stated in the first eight lines, the octave.
another name for a sextet, a unit of quantity equal to 6. This spelling is used in poetry to describe a six-line stanza and is sometimes used in music for an ensemble of 6 instruments.
is any six-line poem or stanza.
A sestet is the name given to the second division of a sonnet, which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines. The first documented user of this poetical form was the Italian poet, Petrarch. In the usual course the rhymes are arranged abc abc, but this is not necessary.