Analysis of Astrophel and Stella: XXXIII

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



I might!--unhappy word--O me, I might,
    And then would not, or could not, see my bliss;
    Till now wrapt in a most infernal night,
    I find how heav'nly day, wretch! I did miss.
    Heart, rend thyself, thou dost thyself but right;
    No lovely Paris made thy Helen his,
    No force, no fraud robb'd thee of thy delight,
    Nor Fortune of thy fortune author is;
    But to myself myself did give the blow,
  While too much wit, forsooth, so troubled me
  That I respects for both our sakes must show:
  And yet could not by rising morn foresee
  How fair a day was near: O punish'd eyes,
  That I had been more foolish,--or more wise!


Scheme ABABACACDEDEFF
Poetic Form
Metre 1101011111 0111111111 1110010101 111111111 11111111 1101011101 1111111101 1101110101 11111101 111111101 11011110111 0111110101 1101111101 1111110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 639
Words 118
Sentences 5
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) 114
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Sir Philip Sidney

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