The Italian sonnet is divided into two sections by two different groups of rhyming sounds. The first 8 lines is called the octave and rhymes:

Original Italian sonnet form in which the sonnet's rhyme scheme divides the poem's 14 lines into two parts, an octet (first eight lines) and a sestet (last six lines).

Turn back the heart you've turned away; Give back your kissing breath; Leave not my love as you have left; The broken hearts of yesterday; ... Affection now, for what you guess; Dwell in my heart,

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How to Write an Italian Sonnet. A lot of new poets get scared away from sonnets and other classical forms, mistakenly believing that writing a poem with a rigid structure is difficult.

Italian sonnet: An octave (eight lines) and a sestet (six lines); ... See English sonnet, Italian sonnet, and Spenserian sonnet.

iamb a metrical foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. ... Italian sonnet; see Petrarchan sonnet.

Britannica online encyclopedia article on Italian sonnet (poetry), ...in the 14th century in the poems of Petrarch. ... description (in sonnet (poetic form)) ... CREATE MY Italian sonn... NEW DOCUMENT

Britannica online encyclopedia article on sonnet (poetic form), fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically five-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme.

In the octave of the preceding sonnet, for example, the alliteration is on a two-line cycle and the rhyme on a four-line cycle.