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allegory Amoretti appears Astrophel and Stella beauty beauty's century character conceit contemporary contrast course courtly love courtship Cupid decasyllables desire diction doth drama E. K. Chambers effect Elizabethan Elizabethan sonnet emotional English sonnet experience expression eyes Faerie Queene figure flowers Friend hath heart Hero and Leander human ideal imagery imagination immortalization individual Italian lady lady's last line last sonnet Laura literary logical loue Love's lover lyric marriage ment metaphor metre mind Mistress moral Muse nature octave original Ovid pattern Petrarch's Petrarchan Petrarchan sonnet play poem Poet Poet's poetic poetry praise qualities quatrain Renaissance rhyme rhyme-scheme romance rose sense sensual sestet Shakespeare's sonnets Sidney Sidney's sonnet medium sonnet sequence sonnet-form soul Spenser spirit stress Surrey Surrey's sweet symbol thee theme things thou thought Time's tion tradition treatment true truth verse verse-form virtue vision words writing Wyatt