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Set your hand to her venerable locks and scattered tresses with firmness, so that this sluggard might escape the mire.

It might be hard for us to encounter these kinds of situations.

For her he perfected the sonnet and wrote the Canzoniere.

Why are my eyes wet day and night? Now God has returned you to the true way, I lift my hands with all my heart to heaven, thankful to him who in his mercy listens benignly to honest human prayers.

A pattern of rhyme, called a scheme, also helps establish the form.

Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun ; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.

Then follow it with how I scorned him too deeply, and say what came of it, of how I was made an example to many men: even though my harsh ruin is written of elsewhere, so that a thousand pens are not yet weary of it, and almost every valley echoes again to the sound of my deep sighs that add credence to my painful life.

Console her then, you whom she waits for, and Rome who still complains of her spouse, and take up the sword now for Christ.

And no assault begun without a peal of bells that were hung on high in thanks to God.

Life is ended, and evening crowns the day.

Thus, a Petrarchan sonnet is structured as an octave 8 lines and a sestet 6 lines.