The Petrarchan sonnet, perfected by the Italian poet Petrarch, divides the 14 lines into two sections: an eight-line stanza (octave) rhyming ABBAABBA, and a six-line stanza (sestet) rhyming CDCDCD or CDECDE.
True because they are being spoken to you, if you don't remember them or write them down you don't have them therefore you will not know what you are doing.
