Analysis of Sonnet 65: Love By Sure Proof

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



Love by sure proof I may call thee unkind,
That giv'st no better ear to my just cries:
Thou whom to me such my good turns should bind,
As I may well recount, but none can prize:

For when, nak'd boy, thou couldst no harbor find
In this old world, grown now so too too wise,
I lodg'd thee in my heart, and being blind
Bu nature born, I gave to thee mine eyes.

Mine eyes, my light, my heart, my life alas,
If so great services may scorned be,
Yet let this thought thy tigrish courage pass:

That I perhaps am somewhat kin to thee,
Since in thine arms, if learn'd fame truth hath spread,
Thou bear'st the arrow, I the arrowhead.


Scheme ABAB ABAB CDC DEE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101 1111011111 1111111111 1111011111 11101111101 0111111111 1110110101 1101111111 1111111101 111100111 111111101 1101111111 1011111111 1110101010
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 630
Words 125
Sentences 3
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 118
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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