| 11. | Typically, the octave introduces a situation, idea, or problem to which the sestet provides a response or resolution.
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| 12. | While the poem as a whole aims at praising love, the focus shifts at the break between octave and sestet.
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| 13. | His rhyme scheme is mixed Italian and English, like Sidney's, the octave being Italian and the sestet English.
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| 14. | In traditional Italian sonnets the octave always ends with a conclusion of one idea, giving way to another idea in the sestet.
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| 15. | The sestet's purpose as a whole is to make a comment on the problem or to apply a solution to it.
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| 16. | The poem is usually divided into two sections with the first eight lines, an octave, and the last six, a sestet.
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| 17. | The sestet ( the last 6 lines ) provides resolution for the poem and rhymes variously, but usually follows the schemes of cdecde or cdccdc.
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| 18. | My favorite Hardy lyric is No . 269, " Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave ?, " composed in six sestets.
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| 19. | As the poem moves from the octave to the sestet, Frank makes note of the Speaker's " radical movement from despair to alert ".
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| 20. | It is likely that, in addition to Wyatt s work, Locke also had access to the sonnets of the Petrarchan break between octave and sestet.
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