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n. A group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet.

n. A poem or stanza containing six lines.

n. A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.

n. The last six lines of a poem.

n. A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.

n. The last six lines of a sonnet.

n. In music, same as sextet.

n. The two concluding stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of three lines each; the last six lines of a sonnet.

n. a rhythmic group of six lines of verse

n. a musical composition written for six performers

n. the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

n. six performers or singers who perform together

n. a set of six similar things considered as a unit

"Notice the ways in which the problem/argument is posited in the octave and the solution/response is presented in the sestet; moreover, to further the problem/argument, Hopkins relies heavily upon cacophony in the octave but turns heavily to euphony in the sestet."

stanza    musical composition    composition    piece    piece of music   

octave    quatrain    couplet    septet    tercet   

sestuor    sestett    sestette   

sextet   

sextuple    septet    sixty-first    octet    experimentalist