1. The octave and sestet have special functions in a Petrarchan sonnet. 2. The sestet picks up the astrological motif of the zodiacal signs. 3. The sestet answers the octave, but neither politely nor smoothly. 4. Lines nine through fourteen form a rhetorical sestet concerning the decay of the beloved. 5. An octave is the first part of a Petrarchan sonnet, which ends with a contrasting sestet . 6. Wyatt employs the Petrarchan octave, but his most common sestet scheme is " cddc ee ". 7. Frank believes that the last sestet , however, is not as " happy " as some may believe. 8. The sestet applies the emetical trope to love : a " policy " is a course of prudent action. 9. In Milton's Sonnet 16, the sestet begins early, halfway through the last line of the octave: 10. VIII, " Morte villana ", with two sestets ( AABBBA AABBBA ) and two quatrains ( CDDC CDDC ).
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