This is an analysis of Sonnet 59: Dear, Why Make You More by Sir Philip Sidney.
Dear, why make you more of a dog than me?
If he do love, I burn, I burn in love;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba abba cdcXddd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 1111100111 0111111101 0111110111 0101110110 1010110101 1111111111 1001110101 1110111101 1111011101 1111110101 01011101101 0101110101 0101111111 0101011100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
if, i, he
Anaphora
if
Anadiplosis
he
