How does Brome's poem "Humility" reflect the general characteristics of Elizabethan poetry?

Richard Brome's poem "Humility" was written in 1632, a few decades after Queen Elizabeth I's reign over England. However, the general literary period associated with Elizabeth's reign could be said to stretch a bit farther than 1558-1603.
Brome's poem is written in language we might expect from Renaissance writers, though he does not use the most oft-studied form of the era: the sonnet. Instead of 14 lines, "Humility" is 16 lines. Instead of using the usual iambic pentameter seen in much of Elizabethan poetry, including sonnets, Brome writes in iambic tetrameter (four iambic feet instead of five; eight syllables per line instead of ten). The poem follows a simple ballad rhyme scheme of aabbcc, and so on.
Even though the poem is not written in sonnet form, its theme is similar to that of the classical sonnets. It is a poem about tragic, unrequited love. The speaker notes that the beloved has "refuse[d]" his overtures of love (2). Brome blames himself for loving one so perfect, so above him:

It was too much for me to love
A man so like the gods above (5-6)

The speaker feels inferior to the beloved and bows down to the beloved's perfection. In the second stanza, the speaker laments that he did not choose someone else to love, someone more attainable. It is too late, though; the speaker has already been humbled.