Giacomo da Lentini was a poet who lived in the 13th-century that invented this poetic style and the first sonnet.

The history of sonnets is drawn back to the 13th century in Italy, and it was spread popular in the 14th century by a scholar called Francesco Petrarca. The Spenserian has a variation with quatrains tagged to their rhyming scheme. The Shakespearean sonnet imbibes in it three quatrains rhyming with ABAB CDCD EFEF and concludes with a rhyming heroic couplet.

The Petrarchan has its 14 lines framed in eight lines (octet). The three important sonnets are Italian or Petrarchan sonnets, the Spenserian sonnets, and the English or Shakespearean sonnets. The third quatrain should conclude the theme of the sonnet with four lines and an EFEF rhyme scheme. The second quatrain develops the sonnet's theme with four lines and a CDCD rhyme scheme. The first quatrain establishes the subject of the sonnet with four lines and an ABAB rhyme scheme. The first three quatrains have four lines and apply an alternative rhyme scheme, and the final quatrain has only two lines where both rhyme. All the sonnets have three important features 14 lines, a rhyme scheme, and they are written in iambic pentameter.ДЄ sonnet can be divided into four divisions called quatrains. Sonnets have a two-parts with a theme, a problem and solution, proposition and reinterpretation, question and answer in their 14 lines, and a volta between the two parts. The simplest form of the sonnet was known as the Shakespearian sonnet or English sonnet.ДЄ sonnet is a 14-line poem in one stanza. The word sonnet was derived from sonetto, an Italian word that means a sound or a song.ДЄ sonnet is a classical form of poetry.

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