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Both Wyatt's and Spenser's sonnets drew on the Italian model established by Petrarch as a source for lyric poetry. They were not the only English Petrarchans; there were, in the later sixteenth-century many imitators of the style, especially amongst courtiers. They were different in that Spenser's sonnets were more accepted than Wyatt's.
Both sonnets explore the themes of love, time, and mortality. They depict how time is fleeting and can lead to the deterioration of love and beauty, emphasizing the inevitability of change and loss. Additionally, they express the power of poetry to immortalize love and beauty despite the passage of time.