In 1579, Edmund Spenser published his first work, The Shepheardes Calendar, which some critics say "can be called the first work of the English literary Renaissance" ("Spenser, Edmund") because of its display of language "no longer plain-style Tudor, but coloured by country speechˇ[and] words from poetry abroad" (Shire). In addition to using the Italianate diction, Spenser imported from Italy themes and ideas about love, in particular (Shire). Demonstrating Spenser's philosophy of love, sonnets 67 and 75 of the Amoretti reveal characteristics of Spenser's writing in their unique structure and their reflections on the permanence love provides in a continually changing universe.

The structure of the sonnets is very revelatory of their author's identity. In his most famous work, The Faerie Queene, Spenser created a new form of stanza, now called the Spenserian stanza, which consists of eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by a ninth line of iambic hexameter and the rhyme scheme follows an ababbcbcc pattern. The Spenserian stanza had its origins in poetry from several countries: the French ballad, the Italian ottava rima, and the stanza form Chaucer used in his "Monk's Tale" from The Canterbury Tales ("Spenser, Edmund"). While the sonnets of the Amoretti retain the standard iambic pentameter meter throughout the entire poem, their rhyme scheme breaks from the more traditional Elizabethan style and mimics the Spenserian stanza with an ababbcbccdcdee pattern. Spenser's unique rhyme scheme serves to create a greater connection between the quatrains. In "One day I wrote her name" it allows for the discussion between the two lovers to develop into a rational argument with the rhymed lines connecting their ideas. For example, the woman's protest that it is "vain assay, / A mortal thing so to immortalize" because she will decay as well, becomes linked to the speaker's argument that "you shall live by fame: / My verse your vertues rare shall eternize."

Sonnets 67 and 75 exemplify a dominant theme of Spenser's poetic works, the "pursuit of permanence in a world of mutability" (Alwes), and reveal that for Spenser human love is the only certainty in a constantly changing universe. In "Lyke as a huntsman" the huntsman's "chase" of the deer most likely represents a man's courtship of a woman and parallels Spenser's "long pursuit" for love's certainty, which the huntsman achieves when he "ˇin hand her yet half trembling took." "One day I wrote her name" celebrates that achievement of the permanence of love; immortalized by his poetry, the love shared between the two people on the beach "ˇshall live, and later life renew," even after their deaths.