Poetry
Pretty much every culture wrote poetry in one form or another during period. Different styles include
Period Examples
Poetry for non-geniuses to model off.
I found that the most accessible 16th C poetry was William Shakespeare, and he's a genius and therefore a bad model for the rest of us.
Therefore, we need to model our work after people who are less good.
Plug their name plus poetry into Google, and examples of their work to read and work off will come up.
Walter Raleigh (especially his Reply to Kit Marlowe'w A Passionate Shepherd to his Love)
George Gascoigne (NB Certayne Notes of Instruction is your basic 16th C Poetry for Dummies book. Download it at http://leehrsn.stormloader.com/gg/cnoi.html)
Finally, remember to count the syllables ...
Anton de Stoc Politokopolis
