What does sestet mean?

Definitions for sestet
sɛˈstɛt, ˈsɛs tɛtses·tet

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexadnoun

    the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

  2. sextet, sextette, sestetnoun

    six performers or singers who perform together

  3. sextet, sextette, sestetnoun

    a set of six similar things considered as a unit

  4. sextet, sextette, sestetnoun

    a musical composition written for six performers

  5. sestetnoun

    a rhythmic group of six lines of verse

Wiktionary

  1. sestetnoun

    The last six lines of a poem.

ChatGPT

  1. sestet

    A sestet is a six-line stanza or poem, or the last six lines in an Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. While it generally does not have a specific rhyme scheme, in the context of a sonnet, it often concludes or resolves the problem presented in the octave or the first eight lines.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Sestetnoun

    a piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor

  2. Sestetnoun

    the last six lines of a sonnet

  3. Etymology: [It. sestetto, fr. sesto sixth, L. sextus, fr. sex six.]

Wikidata

  1. Sestet

    A sestet is the name given to the second division of an Italian 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. Early Italian sonnets, and in particular those of Dante, often close with the rhyme-arrangement abc cba; but in languages where the sonority of syllables is not so great as it is in Italian, it is dangerous to leave a period of five lines between one rhyme and another. In the quatorzain, there is, properly speaking, no sestet, but a quatrain followed by a couplet, as in the case of English Sonnets. Another form of sestet has only two rhymes, ab ab I ab; as is the case in Gray's famous sonnet On the Death of Richard West. The sestet should mark the turn of emotion in the sonnet; as a rule it may be said, that the octave having been more or less objective, in the sestet reflection should make its appearance, with a tendency to the subjective manner. For example, in Matthew Arnold's The Better Part, the rough inquirer, who has had his own way in the octave, is replied to as soon as the sestet commences:

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Sestet

    Sestette, ses′tet, n. the last six lines of a sonnet forming two stanzas of three lines each: (mus.) same as Sextet. [It. sestettosesto—L. sextus, sixth.]

Anagrams for sestet »

  1. teests

  2. testes

  3. tsetse

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of sestet in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of sestet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7


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