Assertion: sonnet's line | /r/HasProperty | the octave
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text: After line 8 (the octave), there is a change of tone and fresh imagery.
text: In the traditional "Italian" or "Petrarchan" sonnet, the poem divides into a group of eight lines ("octave") followed by a group of six lines ("sestet").
text: The first eight lines are known as the Octave, followed by the last six lines called the Sestet.
text: a poem, properly expressive of a single, complete thought, idea, or sentiment, of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to one of certain definite schemes, being in the strict or Italian form divided into a major group of 8 lines (the octave) followed by a minor group of 6 lines (the sestet), and in a common English form into 3 quatrains followed by a couplet.
text: The first eight lines, the octave, state a problem, ask a question, or express an emotional tension.
text: However, the argument of the poem may also be seen as reflecting the older structure of the Petrarchan sonnet: lines one through eight are the octave which concerns the decay that occurs in nature, and these lines are connected through alliteration.
text: In the traditional "Italian" or "Petrarchan" sonnet, the poem divides into a group of eight lines ("octave") followed by a group of six lines ("sestet").
text: The poem is usually divided into two sections with the first eight lines, an octave, and the last six, a sestet.