Sonnet 12 bristly beard," "violet past prime," and "sable curls all silver'd o'er with white." One last image to take note of is the fact that the only way to defy time is by creating new virtues and beauties. And to do this, Shakespeare tells the young man, is by creating descendants. This fact is shown in the volta, the last two lines of the sonnet, when Shakespeare says, "And nothing 'gainst time's scythe can make defence, / Save breed to brave him when he takes thee hence." Sonnet 12 follows the structure of a typical Shakespearean sonnet. It consists of 14
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