Italian Sestet

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

Pasted from <http://thepoetsgarret.com/2010Challenge/form11.html> 

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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