How Many Lines Make Up The Sestet Of An Italian Or Petrarchan Sonnet Eight Twelve Fourteen Six?

How Many Lines Make Up The Sestet Of An Italian Or Petrarchan Sonnet Eight Twelve Fourteen Six? 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. Are there 12 lines in a sonnet?