Sir Phillip Sydney's (1554 - 1586) "Sonnet XXXI" is from "Astrophil and Stella" (his collection of sonnets).
Most of Sydney's sonnets follow the traditional Petrarchan rhyme scheme (named after the Italian sonneteer Petrarch). However, Sir Phillip Sydney used a different rhyme scheme created by himself in Sonnet 31. The rhyme scheme of this sonnet (31) is abba abba cd cd ee.
