Petrarchan sonnet

[2] Because of the structure of Italian, the rhyme scheme of the Petrarchan sonnet is more easily fulfilled in that language than in English.

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey are both known for their translations of Petrarch's sonnets from Italian into English.

As a result, he is often credited for integrating the Petrarchan sonnet into English vernacular tradition.

The convention was also mocked, or adopted for alternative persuasive means by many of the Inns of Court writers during the Renaissance.

William Wordsworth's "London, 1802" Emma Lazarus's "The New Colossus" Sri Aurobindo's "MAN THE ENIGMA"