Later, the abba, abba pattern became the standard for Italian sonnets.

For the sestet there were two

different possibilities: cdd, cde and cdc, cdc. In time, other variants on this rhyming scheme were
introduced, such as cdcdcd. Petrarch typically used an abba, abba pattern for the octave, followed
by either cde, cde or cdc, cdc rhymes in the sestet. (The symmetries (abba vs. cdc) of these rhyme
schemes have also been rendered in musical structure in the late 20th century composition Scrivo in
Vento inspired by Petrarch's Sonnet 212, Beato in Sogno. [3]))