sestet
The noun sestet means the six final lines of a sonnet, or another group of six lines of poetry. You might discuss a sestet during a college literature class.
Use sestet to talk about very specific lines of verse, the last six in a sonnet. It's most common to find a sestet in Italian sonnets, such as those written by Petrarch and Dante. In English poetry, it's more usual to see a couplet — two lines of verse — at the end of a sonnet. The noun sestet occasionally fills in for the word sextet, or group of six things. The Latin root is sextus, or "sixth."
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a rhythmic group of six lines of versetype of:stanzaa fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem
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a set of six similar things considered as a unit
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six performers or singers who perform togethertype of:musical group, musical organisation, musical organizationan organization of musicians who perform together
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a musical composition written for six performers
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the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one
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