Analysis of Sonnet 101: Stella Is Sick
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Stella is sick, and in that sickbed lies
Sweetness, which breathes and pants as oft as she:
And Grace, sick too, such fine conclusions tries
That Sickness brags itself best grac'd to be.
Beauty is sick, but sick in so fair guise
That is that paleness Beauty's white we see,
And Joy, which is inseparate from those eyes,
Stella now learns (strange case) to weep in thee.
Love moves thy pain, and like a faithful page,
As thy looks stir, runs up and down to make
All folks press'd at thy will thy pain t'assuage.
Nature with care sweats for her darling's sake,
Knowing worlds pass, ere she enough can find
Of such heav'n stuff, to clothe so heav'nly mind.
Scheme | ABAB ABAB CDC DEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101100111 1011011111 0111110101 1101011111 1011110111 11111111 01111111 1011111101 1111010101 1111110111 11111111101 101111011 1011110111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 661 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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