| 1. | The octave and sestet have special functions in a Petrarchan sonnet.
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| 2. | The sestet picks up the astrological motif of the zodiacal signs.
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| 3. | The sestet answers the octave, but neither politely nor smoothly.
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| 4. | Lines nine through fourteen form a rhetorical sestet concerning the decay of the beloved.
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| 5. | An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a contrasting sestet.
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| 6. | Wyatt employs the Petrarchan octave, but his most common sestet scheme is " cddc ee ".
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| 7. | Frank believes that the last sestet, however, is not as " happy " as some may believe.
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| 8. | The sestet applies the emetical trope to love : a " policy " is a course of prudent action.
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| 9. | In Milton's Sonnet 16, the sestet begins early, halfway through the last line of the octave:
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| 10. | VIII, " Morte villana ", with two sestets ( AABBBA AABBBA ) and two quatrains ( CDDC CDDC ).
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