Question

The second section of an Italian sonnet is called a(n) _____.

couplet
octave
quatrain
sestet

Answer 1

sestet

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Answer 2

the blank is sestet

Step-by-step explanation:

Because of the structure of Italian, the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet is more easily fulfilled in that language than in English. The original Italian sonnet form divides the poem's fourteen lines into two parts, the first part being an octave and the second being a sestet.