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The first to write sonnets in English was Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Surrey's great innovation was to change the structure of the Petrarchan sonnet, creating the pattern which was later adopted by Shakespeare and his contemporaries and usually known as the "Elisabethan" or "Shakespearean" sonnet.

Both sonnets are made up of 14 lines, but while Petrarch's is divided into 2 quatrains and 1 sestet (rhyme abba-abba-cdc-cdc), in Surrey the sonnet is composed of 3 quatrains and 1 couplet (rhyme abab-cdcd-efef-gg).