Analysis of Sonnet 53: In Martial Sports
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
In martial sports I had my cunning tried,
And yet to break more staves did me address:
While, with the people's shouts, I must confess,
Youth, luck, and praise, ev'n fill'd my veins with pride;
When Cupid having me his slave descried,
In Mars's livery, prancing in the press:
'What now, Sir Fool,' said he; I would no less.
'Look here, I say.' I look'd and Stella spied,
Who hard by made a window send forth light.
My heart then quak'd, then dazzled were mine eyes;
One hand forgot to rule, th'other to fight.
Nor trumpet's sound I heard, nor friendly cries;
My foe came on, and beat the air for me,
Till that her blush taught me my shame to see.
Scheme | ABBA ABBA CDC DEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101111101 011111111 1101011101 11011111111 110101111 01010010001 1111111111 1111110101 1111010111 1111110011 110111111011 111111101 1111010111 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 121 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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