Analysis of Sonnet XCII: Be Your Words Made

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



Be your words made, good sir, of Indian ware,
That you allow me them by so small rate?
Or do you cutted Spartans imitate?
Or do you mean my tender ears to spare,
That to my questions you so total are?
When I demand of Phœnix Stella's state,
You say, forsooth, you left her well of late:
O God, think you that satisfies my care?
I would know whether she did sit or walk;
How cloth'd, how waited on; sigh'd she, or smil'd;
Whereof, with whom, how often did she talk;
With what pastime time's journey she beguiled;
If her lips deign'd to sweeten my poor name.
Say all; and all well said, still say the same.


Scheme ABBACBBADEDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 11111111001 1101111111 1111110 1111110111 1111011101 11011111101 111110111 111111011 1111011111 1111011111 111110111 111110101 1011110111 1101111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 600
Words 119
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 455
Words per stanza (avg) 117
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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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