Sir Philip Sidney's Sonnet 31 is taken from his Astrophil and Stella, a sonnet sequence containing 108 sonnets and 11 songs. Astrophil and Stella was probably written in the 1580s and it narrates the story of Astrophil and his hopeless passion for Stella. Particularly, Sonnet 31 conveys Astrophil’s thoughts while seeing the moon at night.

The poem is a Petrarchan sonnet. It has 14 lines and it is written in iambic pentameter. Sonnet 31 can be divided in an octet and a sestet and it has an ABBA ABBA CDCDEE rhyme scheme. Moreover, the poem has love and nature as main themes. The tone is reflective and it gets aggrieved as the lines go by.

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