ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Sestet. A six-line stanza, or the final six lines of a 14-line Italian or Petrarchan sonnet. A sestet refers only to the final portion of a sonnet, otherwise the six-line stanza is known as a sexain.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are many examples of sestets, both in the Petrarchan form and, more generally, as any six-line stanza of poetry. The last six lines of Emma Lazarus’s poem, The New Colossus from 1883, are one example of a sestet.

Detailed explanation-3: -A sestet is a six-line stanza or poem, or the second half or a sonnet. It does not require a specific rhyme scheme or metrical pattern. Poets can use any combinations of rhymes and meters that they want, or none at all.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Petrarchan sonnet, perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.

Detailed explanation-5: -Examples of Sestinas: ‘A Miracle for Breakfast’ In particular, the repetition of end words, such as ‘coffee, ’ ‘crumb, ’ and ‘miracle, ’ reflect the desperate hunger that many experienced during these dark days in American history.-like kings of old, or like a miracle.