Assertion: sonnet's octave | /r/HasProperty | followed by sestet
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text: Structure: An octave followed by a sestet
text: One could say that the sonnets sent to the South African review were Miltonic for Anon, both by virtue of the form adhered to ( Italian sonnet : an octave followed by a sestet), and the reference to current political events.
text: The Petrarchan sonnet consists of an octave (group of eight lines) followed by a sestet (group of six lines).
text: The Petrarchan sonnet breaks the sonnet into an octave, consisting of eight lines, followed by a sestet, or a group of six lines.
text: While the Italian sonnet popularized by Petrarch is characterized by an octave followed by a sestet, and by an abba abba cdecde or abba abba cdcdcd rhyme scheme, the English sonnet is structured around three quatrains and a couplet.
text: It opens with an octave followed by a sestet; has no couplets; and has a complex rhyme scheme, with a fixed interlacing rhyme scheme in the pattern abbaabba in the octave and one of several schemes in the sestet: cdcedc, cddcdc, and cdeced etc.