This is a perfect example of an Italian Sonnet.

Like most Italian sonnets, its 14 lines are written in iambic pentameter.

Paolo's seven Italian sonnets are listed below by first line:

However he also borrowed from Horace when composing his Italian sonnets.

The Italian sonnets included two parts.

No gift of the Muse is more injured by change of form than the Italian sonnet.

Two Italian sonnets referring to his death have been preserved, which place him as a poet beside Dante.

Whatever the changes made by poets exercising artistic license, no "proper" Italian sonnet has more than five different rhymes in it.

The structure of a typical Italian sonnet of this time included two parts that together formed a compact form of "argument".

This Italian sonnet uses the last six lines (sestet) to answer the first eight lines (octave).

The volta, typical of Italian sonnets, is put very effectively to use by Keats as he refines his previous idea.

In traditional Italian sonnets the octave always ends with a conclusion of one idea, giving way to another idea in the sestet.

However, the rhymes of the sestet in an Italian sonnet can vary widely: cdcdcd, cddcdd, etc.

The original Italian sonnet form divides the poem's 14 lines into two parts, an octave (first eight lines) and a sestet (last six lines).

(La) Nina Siciliana was the composer of one Italian sonnet, and a candidate to be the first Italian poetess.

Chapter 9-A feud between Reverend Solomon who writes poetry in blank verse and Iphanissa who writes Italian sonnets is discussed.

Petrarch developed the Italian sonnet pattern, which is known to this day as the Petrarchan sonnet or the Italian sonnet.

The Italian sonnet requires that the fourteen lines be broken into one octave (two quatrains), which describe a problem, followed by a sestet (two tercets), which gives the resolution to it.

Il Fiore is a "reduction" of the poem into 232 Italian sonnets by a "ser Durante", sometimes thought to have been Dante, although this is generally thought unlikely.

However, in Italian sonnets in English, this rule is not always observed, and c d d c e e and c d c d e e are also used.

A sestet is the name given to the second division of an Italian sonnet (as opposed to an English or Spenserian Sonnet), which must consist of an octave, of eight lines, succeeded by a sestet, of six lines.

Bona entered the book about the Dukess of Paliano, not with poems in a Croatian language, but with an Italian sonnet and a Latin epigram, signing "Giovanni Bona da [from] Cattaro".

These explosive and innovative nine-line dramatic monologues are variations on the historic English and Italian sonnet and rumble across the page with a jazzy linguistic verve that recalls the paintings of Jackson Pollack and the poetry of Walt Whitman.

It contains more than forty fantasias, six pavans, twelve villancicos, as well as sonetos (settings of Italian sonnets), and other pieces; some of the pieces are for solo vihuela, and others for voice accompanied by vihuela.

Modena, who died in 1648, wrote numerous books, including "The History of Jewish Rituals" and an autobiography of life in 17th-century Venice, in which he listed his pursuit of 26 professions ranging from composer of Italian sonnets to marriage broker.