noun
- plural of sestet; six-line stanzas or groups of verses in poetry
Usage: literary
Examples
- The sonnet consists of two quatrains followed by two sestets.
- She analyzed the rhyme scheme in the poem’s sestets.
- The poet used alternating sestets and quatrains throughout the work.
- Each of the sestets in the sequence explored a different theme.
- The sestets provided a musical quality to the verse.
- Students were asked to identify the sestets in the Italian sonnet form.