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Sestet vs Sonnet - What's the difference?

sestet | sonnet |

As nouns the difference between sestet and sonnet

is that sestet is (music) a piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor while sonnet is a fixed verse form of italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.

As a verb sonnet is

to compose sonnets.

sestet

English

(wikipedia sestet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.
  • (poetry) The last six lines of a poem.
  • See also

    * couplet * tercet * quatrain * cinquain * septet * octave

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    sonnet

    English

    (wikipedia sonnet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of fourteen lines that are typically five-foot iambics and rhyme according to one of a few prescribed schemes.
  • See also

    * poem * English sonnet * Italian sonnet * quatorzain

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compose sonnets.
  • * Milton
  • Strains that come almost to sonneting .

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