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2 unusual facts about Thomas Wyatt


Terza rima

Although a difficult form to use in English because of the relative paucity of rhyme words available in a language which has, in comparison with Italian, a more complex phonology, terza rima has been used by Wyatt, Milton, Byron (in his Prophecy of Dante) and Shelley (in his Ode to the West Wind and The Triumph of Life).

Thomas Wyatt

Thomas Wyatt Turner (1877–1978), American civil rights activist, biologist and educator



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Elizabeth Brooke

Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt (died 1560), alleged mistress of Henry VIII and estranged wife of the poet Thomas Wyatt