A SESTET is a poem in six-line stanzas. This is a broader category that encompasses more specific structures such as the Italian sestet, the Sicilian sestet, or the stave.

There is no set amount of syllables per line, or any defined rhyme-scheme structure for the sestet


Example by Dmytro Drozdovsky:

excerpt from Captain Who Voyages No More

Troubled slumbering of things, the curtain blown aside
by the gush of the salty wind, the advent of the tide
mixing grains of dry sand, the disjoined palimpsest,
the thin wing beating under the chest, restlessly,
the splinters of far-off vessels stuck in the sea,
not entering the harbour, as if they have something to hide.