Crossword-Solution: SESTETTE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Thus the sonnet, which had been an octave of enclosed or alternate rhymes, followed by a sestette of interlaced tercets, was now changed to a series of three quatrains with differing sets of alternate rhymes in each, at the close of which the insidious couplet succeeded in establishing itself.

But to how many links of a long chain does Maurice de Guérin lead us! Here is another link--José de Herédia, and his jewelled and chiselled sonnets--the "Antique Medal" with its peerless sestette, which combines the essential meanings of Keats's "Ode to a Grecian Urn." _Le temps passe.

The opening phrases of both octave and sestette are very fine; but the second quatrain and the second terzina, though with a quality of beauty, both seem somewhat to lack distinctness.

What an effect has been missed by not bringing them in on real horses, and giving them a quartette or a sestette _ŕ cheval_, with a solo for the Captain! Then the Captain might know all about the murder, and _he_ would reveal it without breaking the seal--unless it were to crack a bottle--and all would end happily.