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
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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Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney was an English poet, courtier, scholar and soldier who is remembered as one of the most prominent figures of the Elizabethan age. more…

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