The Petrarchan sonnet, named after Italian poet Francesco Petrarca, was introduced to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt in the 1500s. It consists of two stanzas with 14 lines and a rhyming system of abba, abba, cde, cde. Petrarch wrote about unattainable love, inspiring the first generation of English sonnets. The Shakespearean sonnet was later developed […]