Analysis of Sonnet LXIV: No More, My Dear

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



No more, my dear, no more these counsels try;
Oh, give my passions leave to run their race;
Let Fortune lay on me her worst disgrace;
Let folk o'ercharg'd with brain against me cry;
Let clouds bedim my face, break in mine eye;
Let me no steps but of lost labour trace;
Let all the earth with scorn recount my case,
But do not will me from my love to fly.
I do not envy Aristotle's wit,
Nor do aspire to Caesar's bleeding fame;
Nor aught do care though some above me sit;
Nor hope nor wish another course to frame,
But that which once may win thy cruel heart:
Thou art my wit, and thou my virtue art.


Scheme ABBAABBACDCDEE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111111101 1111011111 1101110101 111110111 111111011 111111111 1101110111 1111111111 111101001 1101110101 1111110111 1111010111 1111111101 1111011101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 121
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 458
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 12, 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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