Sonnet 23 and then his collection of poems to a play. Sonnet 23 is considered an English or Shakespearean Sonnet. It contains 14 iambic pentameter lines. The rhyme scheme is "abab cdcd efef gg". The form consists of three quatrains and a couplet. All of the lines, including the fifth line are examples of iambic pentameter: After the octave (the first two quatrains) there is often a change referred to as a volta. In Sonnet 23 the volta is line nine's suggestion. "For fear of trust" has drawn different, though not necessarily contradictory, glosses. Nicolaus Delius has it "from want of self-confidence,"
Sonnet considered to be mutually exclusive to separate genres, as demonstrated in works such as "An Ode to Mary". The Greek poet Yannis Livadas in 1993 invented the so-called "fusion sonnet", which first appeared in a poetry collection entitled "The Hanging Verses Of Babylon"/"Οι Κρεμαστοί Στίχοι Της Βαβυλώνας" (Melani Books, Athens 2007), . Paulus Melissus (1539–1602) was the first to use the sonnet and the "terza rima" in German lyric. In his lifetime he was recognized as an author fully versed in Latin love poetry. The "Sonnets to Orpheus" are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian-Austrian