Why did sonnets decline in popularity during the Restoration Era ?

A sonnet is a
one-stanza poem of fourteen lines which is written in iambic pentameter. It was invented by
Petrarch, an Italian poet, in the 1400s but gained immense popularity in England under William
Shakespeare. The reason for the sonnet's popularity can also help us to explain why it declined
in favour during the Restoration: the sonnet came to be...