Sonnet 20 Sonnet 20 Sonnet 20 is one of the best-known of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. Part of the Fair Youth sequence (which comprises sonnets 1-126), the subject of the sonnet is widely interpreted as being male, thereby raising questions about the sexuality of its author. In this sonnet (as in, for example, Sonnet 53) the beloved's beauty is compared to both a man's and a woman's. Sonnet 20 is a typical English or Shakespearean sonnet, containing three quatrains and a couplet for a total of fourteen lines. It follows the rhyme scheme of this
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