What's the difference between sestet and tercet?

Sestet

Definition:

• (n.) A piece of music composed for six voices or six instruments; a sextet; -- called also sestuor.
• (n.) The last six lines of a sonnet.

Example Sentences:

• (1) Sonnets, one should note in passing, are hard to read – particularly as they move on to the “sestet”, or last six lines.

Tercet

Definition:

• (n.) A triplet.
• (n.) A triplet; a group of three lines.

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