How have mine eyes out of their spheres been fitted, In the distraction of this madding fever!

now I find true That better is by evil still made better; And ruin’d love, when it is built anew, Grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater.

So I return rebuk’d to my content, And gain by ill thrice more than I have spent.

It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.

It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form ABAB CDCD EFEF GG and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.