The Italian sonnet was introduced by Giacomo da Lentini, head of the Sicilian school under Frederick II. An Italian sonnet is composed of Octave, rhyming abbaabba, and a sestet. Usually, English, and Italian sonnets have ten syllables per line, but 11 syllables per line. The Italian sonnet includes two parts.
The first known sonnets written in English were written by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. These sonnets were used in this Italian scheme as did sonnets by later English poets including Thomas Gray, William Wordsworth, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
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