Analysis of Sonnet 59: Dear, Why Make You More

Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)



Dear, why make you more of a dog than me?
If he do love, I burn, I burn in love;
If he wait well, I never thence would move;
If he be fair, yet but a dog can be.

Little he is, so little worth is he;
He barks, my songs thine own voice oft doth prove:
Bidden perhaps he fetcheth thee a glove,
But I unbid, fetch ev'n my soul to thee.

Yet while I languish, him that bosom clips,
That lap doth lap, nay lets in spite of spite
This sour-breath'd mate taste of those sugar'd lips.

Alas, if you grant only such delight
To witless thngs, then Love I hope (since wit
Becomes a clog) will soon ease me of it.


Scheme ABCA ACBA DED EFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111 1111111101 1111110111 1111110111 1011110111 1111111111 100111101 1111111111 1111011101 1111110111 11011111101 0111110101 1101111111 0101111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 604
Words 126
Sentences 6
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. more…

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