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sestet

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sestet
1. Prosody the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet
2. Prosody any six-line stanza
3. another word for sextet


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Wyatt, it should be observed, generally departs from the Petrarchan rime-scheme, on the whole unfortunately, by substituting a third quatrain for the first four lines of the sestet.
 
 
 
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