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has gloss	(noun) a rhythmic group of six lines of verse sestet
has gloss	eng: A sestet is the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet (as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet), which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines. The first documented user of this poetical form was the Italian poet, Petrarch. In the usual course the rhymes are arranged abc abc, but this is not necessary. Early Italian sonnets, and in particular those of Dante, often close with the rhyme-arrangement abc cba; but in languages where the sonority of syllables is not so great as it is in Italian, it is dangerous to leave a period of five lines between one rhyme and another. In the quatorzain, there is, properly speaking, no sestet, but a quatrain followed by a couplet, as in the case of English Sonnets. Another form of sestet has only two rhymes, ab ab I ab; as is the case in Grays famous sonnet On the Death of Richard West.
lexicalization	eng: sestet
subclass of	(noun) a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem stanza

Meaning
Gan Chinese
has gloss	gan: 六行詩（Sestet）係西方詩歌裏頭嗰一類押韻詩體。一首十四行詩（Sonnet）嗰督上六行就係一隻Sestet，頭八行叫octave。
lexicalization	gan: 六行詩

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