Sonnet 57: Woe, Having Made With Many Fights
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Woe, having made with many fights his own
Each sense of mine; each gift, each power of mind
Grown now his slaves, he forc'd them out to find
The thoroughest words, fit for Woe's self to groan,
Hoping that when they might find Stella alone,
Before she could prepare to be unkind,
Her soul, arm'd but with such a dainty rind,
Should soon be pierc'd with sharpness of the moan.
She heard my plaints, and did not only hear,
But them (so sweet is she) most sweetly sing,
With that fair breast making woe's darkness clear:
A pretty case! I hoped her to bring
To feel my griefs, and she with face and voice
So sweets my pains, that my pains me rejoice.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | ABBA ABBA XCX CDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 652 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
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