This poetic style has been widely used since Europe entered the Renaissance. The Italian poet Peterak became the most important representative who used sonnets. He wrote 375 sonnets in his life, which was included in the Lyrics Collection and dedicated to his lover Laura. In his sonnets, each poem is divided into two parts: the first part consists of two sonnets, and the second part consists of two sonnets, that is, arranged in four, four, three and three. Its rhyme format is ABBA, ABBA, CDE, CDE or ABBA, ABBA, CDC, CDC. There are eleven chapters in each line, usually iambic.
Peterak's sonnets are neat in form and beautiful in rhyme. The main content is to praise love and express the thoughts of humanists. His poems opened up a new way for the development of European bourgeois lyric poetry in content and form. Contemporary Italian poets and later some poets in other countries regard Peterak's poems as a model of sonnets and try to emulate them. Therefore, people also call it Peterak's poetic style.
/kloc-At the beginning of the 6th century, sonnets spread to England and became very popular. By the end of16th century, sonnets had become the most popular poetry genre in Britain. Famous sonnets, such as Sydney and Spencer, were produced. Shakespeare further developed and enriched this poetic style and wrote 154 sonnets all his life. Shakespeare's poems have changed the format of Peterak, which consists of three paragraphs and four lines and a pair of antitheses, that is, arranged in four, four, four and two, and their rhyming formats are Ababou, CDCD, EFEF and GG. There are ten iambic syllables in each line.
Shakespeare's sonnets go a step further than Peterak's, with more vivid and rich themes, twists and turns of thought and easy application, and often point out the meaning of the problem in the last dialogue. Later, Milton, Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats also wrote some excellent sonnets.