Petrarchan sonnet Italian sonnet form in the poems of his that were not translation and adaptation work. As a result, he is often credited for integrating the Petrarchan sonnet into English vernacular tradition. The form also gave rise to an "anti-Petrarchan" convention which may have revealed the mistress to be ugly and unworthy. The convention was also mocked, or adopted for alternative persuasive means by many of the Inns of Court writers during the Renaissance. The sonnet is split in two groups: the "octave" (of 8 lines) and the "sestet" (of 6 lines), for a total of 14 lines. The octave (the
Sonnet 100 3rd line exhibits a common metrical variant, the initial reversal, which is also present in lines 4, 7, and potentially 9: The 13th line generates a somewhat complex rhythm, incorporating an initial "and" a mid-line reversal, as well as two non-ictic stresses ("love" and "wastes"): Sonnet 100 Sonnet 100 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare. It is a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man. Sonnet 100 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet. The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a