Sestet


noun
1.
Prosody. the last six lines of a sonnet in the Italian form, considered as a unit.
Compare octave (def 4a).
2.
sextet (def 2).
noun
1.
(prosody) the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet
2.
(prosody) any six-line stanza
3.
another word for sextet (sense 1)

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