Analysis of Sonnet 36: Stella, Whence Doth This
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Stella, whence doth this new assault arise,
A conquer'd, yielden, ransack'd heart to win?
Whereto long since through my long batter'd eyes,
Whole armies of thy beauties entered in.
And there long since, Love thy lieutenant lies,
My forces raz'd, thy banners rais'd within:
Of conquest, do not these effects suffice,
But wilt now war upon thine own begin?
With so sweet voice, and by sweet Nature so
In sweetest strength, so sweetly skill'd withal,
In all sweet stratagems sweet Art can show,
That not my soul, which at thy foot did fall
Long since, forc'd by thy beams, but stone nor tree
By Sense's privilege, can 'scape from thee.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110101 01011111 111111101 1101110100 0111110101 1101110101 1101110101 1111011101 1111011101 010111011 0111001111 1111111111 1111111111 11101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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