The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.
1Within the Petrarchan form's basic octave-sestet structure there are other sub-divisions possible.
2The octave is made up of two quatrains and the sestet of two tercets.
3The octave is sometimes said to consist of two quatrains, and the sestet of two tercets.
4The sestet, though it contains but six lines, is more liberal in the disposition of its rimes.
5In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close.
6In the sestet there are sometimes two and sometimes three rhymes; but in some way its two stazas rhyme together.
7The first eight lines in technical language are called the "octave," the last six lines are called the "sestet."
8Polyptoton, the device which repeats the same word in a different grammatical case, continues to enliven the emotional interplay in the sestet.
9The sestet continues: Nevertheless, do not let the memory of me become a burden, especially if you ever learn what was in my living thoughts.
10'The sestet of the Purcell sonnet is not so clearly worked out as I could wish.
11(4) An examination of the rimes again will show that greater strictness prevails in the octave than in the sestet.
12(5) Again, with reference to the rime, it will be observed that the vowel terminals of the octave and the sestet are differentiated.
13Within the Petrarchan form's basic octave-sestet structure there are other sub-divisions possible.
14The octave is made up of two quatrains and the sestet of two tercets.
15The octave is sometimes said to consist of two quatrains, and the sestet of two tercets.
16The sestet, though it contains but six lines, is more liberal in the disposition of its rimes.