The growing optimism of these last three sonnets propels the speaker to declare at the start of this final sestet, "But true thy art,.../Blind Builder of the city, on whose crown/Man stands--a temple for a God's indwelling,/ Thy finest--" (11.

Even more oddly, because these 3 lines don't rhyme, but do form half of 6, this "tercet" could be the missing half of a sestet rhyming cdecde.

In eight instances the necessary so clause, the topic half of the simile, is deferred to the ninth line or sestet of an Italian sonnet.

Sonnet XIV, for instance, purports to sermonize about the dangers of selfpromotion, but the baroque, sexually charged imagery with which the octet presents the problem of ambitious self-fashioning ("As if a Naiad, like a meddling elf, / Should darken her pure grot with muddy gloom") overshadows the prim lesson of the sestet. The poem ends inconclusively on a question: "Why then should man, teasing the world for grace, / Spoil his salvation for a fierce miscreed?" (469).

The argument of the sestet, crudely put, seems to run like this: 'O sleep, [...]., bringer of peace and happiness, repeat my dream [of possession, of achieved inwardness, of a present which puts its past behind it] every night; repeat it, so that even if, outside the dream world, I cannot realize this fantasy, I can go on enjoying a simulacrum of it.' Now, of course, it is clear from the 'Epitre dedicatoire' that according to Labe, events merely remembered strike one as illusory and, consequently, produce only states of dissatisfaction, however pleasurable those events were originally.

Treating the later poem as though it formed the allegorical conclusion (or sestet) of an aggregated set of sensory and inscaped impressions (or octaves) recalled from the nature sonnets a decade earlier, I show Hopkins moving beyond both the formal and conceptual compromises of those poems and the contexts adduced to read them.

Mark Tredinnick, pictured, picked up the pounds 5,000 prize for his poem Margaret River Sestets.

Charles was a big help, admonishing, "If you can't sing, you've got to get out of the choir." Most recently Charles has published Sestets, followed by Outtakes, more poems in the same discipline.

Besides a pantoum, 16 of the book's 50 poems, including its opener, are 18-liners arranged in ABBACC heroic sestets. That this is a radical departure and a reinvention is made clear in the poems themselves.

Thus, his seventh book of verse since 1974 features a sonnet whose title is the same as that of the collection, quatrains with alternating rhymes, couplets, triolets, a terza rima, plus sestets of various rhyme schemes and line lengths.

The poem about love's transience is by Manley Hopkins (father to Gerard) signing as "Berni" and begins as an unbroken column of sestets on a recto page (Figure 3).

"Conchs and Seashells," in its excellent sestets, charmingly imitates a lovely infant, intimating how the title word was created for the poet by an innocent.

Charles Wright's sestets are pensive meditations on the human predicament, cast in six brief lines.