Couplet vs. Sestet — What's the Difference?

A couplet is a pair of successive lines of metre in poetry. A couplet usually consists of two successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre.

A sestet is six lines of poetry forming a stanza or complete poem. A sestet is also the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet (as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet), which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines.

A unit of verse consisting of two successive lines, usually rhyming and having the same meter and often forming a complete thought or syntactic unit.

A group of six lines of poetry, especially the last six lines of a Petrarchan sonnet.

Two similar things; a pair.

A poem or stanza containing six lines.

A set of two things, particularly

(music) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet or sestuor.

(literature) A pair of lines, typically with rhyming end words.

(poetry) The last six lines of a sonnet, forming two stanzas of three lines each.

A pair of one-way streets which carry opposing directions of traffic through gridded urban areas.

A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; - called also sestuor.

(taxonomy) A pair of two mutually exclusive choices in a dichotomous key.

The last six lines of a sonnet.

Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

The cardinal number that is the sum of five and one

Two items of the same kind

Six performers or singers who perform together

A stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed

A set of six similar things considered as a unit

A musical composition written for six performers

A rhythmic group of six lines of verse