Italian Sestet
The original version of the Italian Sestet had no set meter,
but after it was introduced into England by Spenser,
eventually the poets there began to use iambic tetrameter
or pentameter. The rhyme pattern example is as follows (Using iambic tetrameter)
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x b
x x x x x x x c
x x x x x x x a
x x x x x x x b
x x x x x x x c
Example Poem
Let’s Write an Italian Sestet
An Italian Sestet we’re to write.
da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM.
Use Tetrameter- (four fine feet).
Delay the rhyme that makes it right.
There’re only two more rhymes to come
then we are done. Now ain’t that sweet?
© Lawrencealot – July 25, 2012
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