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The most important and famous form of poetry during the Renaissance, was the sonnet.
In Italy it was invented by Giacomo da Lentini, while in England it was introduced by Thomas Wyatt in the early 16th century.
The term derives from the Occitan word "sonnet" and the Italian word "sonetto", both meaning "little song".
There are two different kinds of sonnet;
the Petrarchan sonnet i: it is arranged into two stanzas: the first is composed by 8 lines (an octave-two quatrains), which describe a problem and the second is composed by 6 lines (a sestet-two tercets), which give us the resolution to it.
the English sonnet is composed by a quatrain and a couplet.
The message of the sonnet is usually love: a suffering love for an unattainable lady.
The Lady was considered like an angel and she was beautiful: she had long blond hair and blue eyes...this was a stereotyped type of woman.
Shakespeare refused the stereotyped of woman and love: he wrote for a real woman, with black hair and eyes, an unromantic woman and he called her "dark lady".