| 单词 | sestet |
| 例句 | The sestet begins by envisioning the time "When it is peace". Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z This sestet is sharpened by Robert's characteristic division of the six lines into two separate triplets, a structure favoured by Philip Sidney in Astrophil and Stella. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z The enfolded quatrain-form is itself a reference to the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet's sestet. Poem of the week: Love-Letter-Burning by Daniel Hall 2013-02-04T10:19:21Z It's remarkable how the sestet slows down without losing energy. Poem of the week: The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins 2010-04-05T09:00:00Z Apart from the attributive tag, the sonnet's sestet, all in the imperative case, is spoken by Liberty herself. Poem of the Week: The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus 2012-06-04T10:42:44Z There was street parking on Gage in front of an orangely-lit space; inside, amid dates and family dinners, a sestet of elderly women drank tamarind margaritas and sang happy birthday. When nobody else could, Jonathan Gold helped me understand & then love LA, one restaurant at a time 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Polyptoton, the device which repeats the same word in a different grammatical case, continues to enliven the emotional interplay in the sestet. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z If "blind", as both adjective and noun, rules the octet, then "peace", also repeated three times, is the dominant noun of the sestet. Poem of the week: To Germany by Charles Hamilton Sorley 2012-11-14T10:20:03Z But the very first words of the sestet show the development in the thought. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The sonnet is a trunk, and you must pack With care, to ship frail baggage far away; The octet is the trunk; sestet, the tray; Tight, but not overloaded, is the knack. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z I confess, though, that I did not know that Petrarch had made so frequent use of the 2-rhyme sestet. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z The Italian form is always marked by the division into octave and sestet, although English usage has been very irregular in marking this division by a full pause. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The order of the eight lines in the modern sonnet is almost invariably unchanged, but the sestet is varied as the movement of the thought dictates. Rhymes and Meters A Practical Manual for Versifiers But there is a tendency to vary the rhyme scheme in the sestet—the octave usually is unchanged. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z In the sestet usually the first line rhymes with the fourth, the second with the fifth and the third with the sixth. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide It is divided into two parts: the first consisting of an octave or double quatrain, and the other of a sestet. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism Most critics prefer those forms of sestet which avoid a final riming couplet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In sestet the first three lines have alternatives of regular rhythm, thus: Then I say more: the just man justices; Keeps grace and that keeps all his goings graces; In God's eye acts, &c. Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published One common variation is to have the rhymes of the sestet c, d, e, c, d, e, instead of c, d, c, d, c, d. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z As a whole the sonnet contains one idea, which in the octave is general, in the sestet specific, for the sestet expresses the conclusion of the octave. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The rhymes of the first two quatrains are usually the same; those of the sestet are variously arranged. Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism In this group the student of the subject should note the detailed variations of the rime-scheme of the sestet, and the varying practice of the poets as to the division between octave and sestet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It consists of six double stanzas, of fourteen lines or two septets each, finished by a sestet, aabaab. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) If the rules of the sonnet were strictly followed, the line which introduces the watchman would begin the sestet instead of closing the octave. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The division of the sestet into two distinct tercets is very rarely maintained; and that of the octave into quatrains is frequently neglected with impunity. The Principles of English Versification In the sestet this is permissible, provided that there is not a riming couplet at the close. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson While following the Italian rime-schemes, however, he was not careful to observe any division between octave and sestet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History When this sonnet was printed by Coleridge in 1796 the sestet was made to run thus:— But ah! sweet scenes of fancied bliss, adieu! The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays But if you find that this at first presents insurmountable difficulty, use three rhymes in the sestet instead of two, as in the two poems following. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The rime sounds of the octave and those of the sestet should be harmonious but not closely similar. The Principles of English Versification They are indeed regular in all respects, save that he is not always careful to observe the pause in the thought, and the subtle change which should divide the octave from the sestet. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson Its sestet, or minor system, may be arranged with more freedom, but a rhymed couplet at the close is only allowable when the form is the English or Shakespearian. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History He built up each poem, that is, in two parts, the octave, a two-rhymed section of eight lines at the beginning, followed by the sestet, a six line close with three rhymes. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge In these, you will see, the rhyme scheme of the sestet is c, d, e, c, d, e. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The sestet continues: Nevertheless, do not let the memory of me become a burden, especially if you ever learn what was in my living thoughts. The Principles of English Versification As regards the transition from octave to sestet the following sonnets observe the prescribed law, namely, the second, third, sixth, seventh, and ninth. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson He not only practised great variety of rime-arrangement in the sestet, but frequently altered the scheme of the octave to such forms as abbaacca; see, for example, the specimen beginning "Scorn not the Sonnet." English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History As already said, these liberties are permitted, for the sestet is not under such arbitrary regulations as the octave. Sonnets by the Nawab Nizamat Jung Bahadur Here is another famous modern sonnet, in which the three rhymes of the sestet are arranged in the order c, d, e, e, c, d. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Tercet, a group of three lines, especially in the sestet of the Italian sonnet, 102, 120. The Principles of English Versification In the sestet we naturally expect and find much variety in the disposition of the rimes. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson Wordsworth also showed no regard for the careful division of thought between octave and sestet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History In the sestet there are sometimes two and sometimes three rhymes; but in some way its two stazas rhyme together. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S How strikingly the sound of "old," in the octave contrasts with that of "ing," and how strikingly in the sestet "ove" contrasts with "ire." The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z While individual poets have constantly experimented with different rhyme-schemes, particularly in the sestet, the only really notable invention of a new sonnet form was made by the Elizabethans. A Study of Poetry The octave is sometimes said to consist of two quatrains, and the sestet of two tercets. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson This new form is divided, not into octave and sestet, but into three quatrains, with alternate rime, and a couplet. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History The octet was finished and the first two lines of the sestet. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches The poet uses but two rhymes in the sestet, the arrangement being c, d, d, c, d, c. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z In the arrangement of the rhymes the sonnet is made up of two parts, or rhyme-systems: the first eight lines forming the "octave," and the last six the "sestet." A Study of Poetry The first eight lines in technical language are called the "octave," the last six lines are called the "sestet." Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson The bipartite character of Rossetti's sonnets is marked, in editions of his poems, by the printing of the octave and sestet with a space between them. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History It is seldom that we find such a couplet as: "The vulture shadows with arrested wings, The indecipherable boasts of kings," in the midst of the sestet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z But sometimes we find the octave of the sonnet consisting, as in the Shakespearean form, of two quatrains, and the sestet approaching closely to the Petrarchan idea. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The octave is made up of two quatrains and the sestet of two tercets. A Study of Poetry The sestet, though it contains but six lines, is more liberal in the disposition of its rimes. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson It represents a common form of the bipartite structure, where the octave is a narrative, and the sestet a comment upon what has been narrated. English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History But there are many verse writers who use the couplet, unrelated in rhyme to the rest of the sestet, to conclude the sonnet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z In these two sonnets, you see, Mr. Sterling has in his sestet the rhymes c, d, e, c, d, e, thus having more license than the poet of the sonnet in four rhymes. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z For the distinction between octave and sestet has disappeared, there is a threefold division of the first twelve lines, and the final couplet gives an epigrammatic summary or "point" which Petrarch took pains to avoid. A Study of Poetry In the sonnet which we are examining, the rime system of the sestet in c d d e c e—containing, as we see, three separate rimes. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson One of these must be in the octave and the other in the sestet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z In this the octave is Shakespearean—rhyming a, b, a, b, c, d, c, d, but the sestet rhymes e, f, f, g, e, g. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z One objection to this method is that it produces, as you see, a rhymed couplet in the midst of the sestet. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z The possible combinations are infinite, but the law of logical relation between octave and sestet, premise and conclusion, is immutable. A Study of Poetry The peculiarity of Spenser's sonnets is that the rime of the octave overflows into the sestet, thus marring the exquisite balance which should subsist between the two parts, and yielding an effect of cloying sweetness. Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson |
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