googe's poems are written in the plain or native style which preceded and subsequently competed with the petrarchan style. petrarchan love poetry (much of the work of henry howard, earl of surrey, sir philip sidney, thomas campion...) was decorative, metaphorical and often exaggerated; it also involved a more fluid mastery of iambic english poetry than the alliterative native style: googe's tonic accents are heavy, the unaccents light; the result is sometimes deliberately blunt and plodding. the poems of george turberville, thomas more, george gascoigne and walter raleigh are examples of a similar style.