... 463). His style was widely followed by a great number of English writers. The major difference is that the sextet of a strict Petrarchan sonnet did not end with a couplet, while Elizabethan and Thomas Wyatt's sonnets generally ended with couplets. The produced effect was a powerful ending. On the contrary, in a traditional sonnet, there is a rule that the conclusion of the octave must be ... initial sonnet are organized in the Petrarchan style, which is abbaabba with occasional disparities (Lathrop 463). Surrey's Sonnet Surrey followed Wyatt's footsteps and the two were identified as t...

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