It divides the sonnet into two parts : the " octet " ( the first eight lines ) usually states and develops the subject, while the " sestet " ( the last six lines ) winds up to a climax.
42.
The same overall pattern is used in " Ode on Indolence ", " Ode on Melancholy ", and " Ode to a Nightingale " ( though their sestet rhyme schemes vary ), which makes the poems unified in structure as well as theme.
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The sestet should mark the turn of emotion in the sonnet; as a rule it may be said, that the octave having been more or less objective, in the sestet reflection should make its appearance, with a tendency to the subjective manner.
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The sestet should mark the turn of emotion in the sonnet; as a rule it may be said, that the octave having been more or less objective, in the sestet reflection should make its appearance, with a tendency to the subjective manner.
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At the end of line eight Shakespeare uses a period to bring the sonnet to a stop, changing the sonnet's direction by moving away from rhetorical questions to a more decisive tone within the sestet, which seems to answer the distress of the octave.
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Although his architectures resemble sometimes the sestets of Charles Wright, whose influence and kinship Tredinnick has acknowledged, unlike Wright, Tredinnick's syntax is often complex, his sentences long, " breathtakingly fluent " ( as Sinead Morrissey has put it ), deltaic.
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Perceptive as to structure, Helen Vendler did note in 1997 that the " doubling vantage that is the theme of the sestet of 88 helps to organize the whole Sonnet ", but extremely valuable as her comments are, she did not observe the existence of the important tennis metaphor nor its relevance to the whole sequence.
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The form of the poem is a Petrarchan sonnet, and Conversi sets the octave, which celebrates the return of springtime, with a quick and light patter of notes drawn from the pastoral Neapolitan canzona; and the sestet, in which the lover mourns the loss of his beloved, arrives in a sombre and slow G minor.
49.
In this type of sonnet ( though not in Sonnet 1 ) " the first eight lines are logically or metaphorically set against the last six [ and ] an octave-generalization will be followed by a particular sestet-application, an octave question will be followed by a sestet answer or at least a quatrain answer before the summarizing couplet ".
50.
In this type of sonnet ( though not in Sonnet 1 ) " the first eight lines are logically or metaphorically set against the last six [ and ] an octave-generalization will be followed by a particular sestet-application, an octave question will be followed by a sestet answer or at least a quatrain answer before the summarizing couplet ".
