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The sonnet is a form of writing often used by many writers and lovers of literature. Most may not know the history and origins of the Petrarchan sonnet or sonnet. There are many different forms of writing, and the sonnet form is a fourteen-line poem divided into two different parts. The first part is called the Octave and the second is the sextet. The normal form of the sonnet is eight lines for the octave and six lines for the sestet. Normally abbaabba, it is the rhyme scheme of sonnets. When compared, the octave is much more difficult than the sextet. Normally people used the rhyme scheme cdecde or cdcdcd for the sestet. But some other options for the sestet include cddcdd, cddece, or cddcc d. This form was used in early English sonnets by several writers such as Wyatt and others. The sextet would not end with a couplet in a rigorous Petrarchan sonnet. But in Italian and English sonnets this rule is not always used, cddcee and cdcde e are also used. The octave and sestet have different tasks in a Petrarchan sonnet. The octave introduces a problem, expresses a desire, makes one reflect on reality, or will show a situation that causes doubt or conflict within the speaker and within an animal and object in the sonnet. He usually does this by talking about the problem in the first quatrain and goes on to explain it in the second. The beginning of the sextet is known as the volta and introduces a change of tone in the sonnet; the change in rhyme scheme marks the turning point. The purpose of the sextet is to comment on the problem or give a solution. The pair normally provides the solution to the problem as a whole in the sonnet. Petrarch's sonnets almost never had a rhyming cou...... middle of paper ......an gham kii (f)Mitaa kar jism, merii rooh ko apnaa liyaa kisne (e)Jawanii ban gaii aamaajagaah sadmaat e paiham kii (f)Hijaabaat e nazar kaa sisilaa tod aur aa bhii jaa (g)Mujhe ik baar apnaa jalwaa e rangiin dikhaa bhii jaa. (g)” Finding these sonnets in numerous other languages ​​and around the world shows how cultures could spread and how they were influenced by others. It is interesting to know that regardless of cultural differences, poets and artists were still able to share what they knew and loved. Learning that these sonnets transformed into what we now use as a modern sonnet is incredible. Our modern sonnets can be interpreted in any direction. Sometimes the original rhyme scheme is used and we use the fourteen lines and regular meter. But other times we just put one word in each line or use free verse and don't stick to the rhyme scheme at all.