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<jats:p>In Martin Opitz’s <jats:italic>Buch von der deutschen Poeterey</jats:italic>, the sonnet is defined by verse and rhyme scheme (<jats:italic>elocutio</jats:italic>), not by arguments (<jats:italic>inventio</jats:italic>) or the arrangement of arguments (<jats:italic>dispositio</jats:italic>); nevertheless, Sibylla Schwarz’s Petrarchan sonnets are also distinguished by their logico-rhetorical structuring. Transcending logical structuring, their subtle style is characterized by surprising relationships between disparate <jats:italic>topoi</jats:italic> and perceptive differentiations between aspects of a particular <jats:italic>topos</jats:italic>. The article analyses Sibylla Schwarz’s contribution to the poetic form of the sonnet, taking the two sonnets, “Die Lieb ist blind” and “Ist Lieb ein Feur”, as examples.</jats:p>