| 单词 | sestet |
| 释义 | sestet (once / 128471 pages) n 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." WORD FAMILYsestet USAGE EXAMPLESPolyptoton, the device which repeats the same word in a different grammatical case, continues to enliven the emotional interplay in the sestet. The Guardian(May 20, 2013) The enfolded quatrain-form is itself a reference to the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet's sestet. The Guardian(Feb 04, 2013) The sestet begins by envisioning the time "When it is peace". The Guardian(Nov 14, 2012) 1n a rhythmic group of six lines of verse Hyper stanza a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem 2n a set of six similar things considered as a unit Syn|Hyper sextet, sextette set a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used 3n six performers or singers who perform together Syn|Hyper sextet, sextette musical group, musical organisation, musical organization an organization of musicians who perform together 4n a musical composition written for six performers Syn|Hyper sextet, sextette composition, musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music a musical work that has been created 5n the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one Syn|Hyper 6, Captain Hicks, VI, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer digit, figure one of the elements that collectively form a system of numeration |
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