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Sestet

noun
1.
The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one.  Synonyms: 6, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, hexad, sextet, sextuplet, sise, six, sixer, VI.
2.
Six performers or singers who perform together.  Synonyms: sextet, sextette.
3.
A set of six similar things considered as a unit.  Synonyms: sextet, sextette.
4.
A musical composition written for six performers.  Synonyms: sextet, sextette.
5.
A rhythmic group of six lines of verse.





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"Sestet" Quotes from Famous Books



... is a wave of melody: From heaving waters of the impassioned soul A billow of tidal music one and whole Flows, in the "octave"; then, returning free, Its ebbing surges in the "sestet" roll Back to the deeps of Life's ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... clamorous daws that fall asleep in the ancient belfry to the sound of the drowsy chimes. Rossetti, in so many ways a continuator of Keats' artistry, devoted to Chatterton the first of his sonnet-group, "Five English Poets,"[29] of which the sestet runs thus: ...
— A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century • Henry A. Beers
... 'The sestet of the Purcell sonnet is not so clearly worked out as I could wish. The thought is that as the seabird opening his wings with a whiff of wind in your face means the whirr of the motion, but also unaware gives you a whiff of knowledge ...
— Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins - Now First Published • Gerard Manley Hopkins


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