Description: | | A sestet consisting of an eight-syllable rhymed couplet
followed by a seven-syllable line that has cross-rhyme to the couplet in the middle and rhymes with the sixth line of the couplet followed by another
eight-syllable couplet and seven-syllable line with cross rhyme to lines four and five.
Eight and seven syllable mixed sestet verse, with syllable and rhyme pattern:
* * * * * * * A
* * * * * * * A
* * A * * * B (A could shift position slightly)
* * * * * * * C
* * * * * * * C
* * C * * * B (C could shift position slightly)
According to one soi-disant authority, the cross-rhyming must be in the middle of lines three and six. According to others it can shift slightly, probably from
the third through fifth syllables. |