Sonnet It belongs to the same form of lyrical poetry as lyrics. But it defines in pattern; it must follow a definite pattern, written in accordance with ser rules. Its origin traced to an Italian poet of the fourteenth century called Petrarch. The number of lines in the sonnet is limited to fourteen divided in two. The first eight is called octave and the last six is called sestet. It was introduced to England in the sixteenth century by Sir Thomas Wyatt and "The Earl of Surry". They slightly varied the Petrarchan form by dividing the fourteen lines into three groups of four (called quatrain) and a couplet at the end. The meter they employed was the lambic pentameter. The greatest writer of al who established the new tradition was Shakespeare and because of him the form came to be termed Shakespearian. The best known among the poets who preferred to stick to the original Petrarchan form is Milton. The rhyme scheme among them within the context of the octave and sest
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