In the sestet, this experience mutates into a meditation on the nature of inspiration and man's connection to creation and his experience of the numinous.
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Written with fourteen lines in a Petrarchan / Italian sonnet form, the poem is divided into an opening octet, and then followed by a concluding sestet.
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In the six subsequent lines ( the sestet ) following the first eight lines ( the octave ), Wordsworth explains why Milton could improve the English condition.
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In using this form consistently, Locke sets herself apart from other early English sonnet writers, who generally ascribed to the traditional Petrarchan octave / sestet pair.
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Chapter VII gives sonnet " O voi che per la via ", with two sestets ( AABAAB AABAAB ) and two quatrains ( CDDC CDDC ), and Ch.
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The form originated in Italy, and the word derives from " sonetto ", which is octave ) is followed by a group of six ( the sestet ).
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The beginning of the sestet is known as the volta, and it introduces a pronounced change in tone in the sonnet; the change in rhyme scheme marks the turn.
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Another form of sestet has only two rhymes, ab ab I ab; as is the case in Gray's famous sonnet " On the Death of Richard West ".
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As far as rhyme scheme, the octet is rhymed after the Shakespearean / Elizabethan ( abab cdcd ) form, while the sestet follows the Petrarchan / Italian ( efg efg ) form.
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Thus a change in emphasis, known as the " volta ", occurs between the end of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth lines between the octet and sestet.
