Analysis of Sonnet 66: And Do I See Some Cause
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
And do I see some cause a hope to feed,
Or doth the tedious burden of long woe
In weaken'd minds, quick apprehension breed,
Of every image which may comfort show?
I cannot brag of word, much less of deed;
Fortune wheels still with me in one sort slow:
My wealth no more, and no whit less my need,
Desire still on the stilts of Fear doth go.
And yet amid all fears a hope there is
Stol'n to my heart, since last fair night, nay day,
Stella's eyes sent to me the beams of bliss,
Looking on me, while I look'd other way:
But when mine eyes back to their heav'n did move,
They fled with blush, which guilty seem'd of love.
Scheme | ABAB ABAB XCX CXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111110111 11010010111 010110101 11001011101 1101111111 1011110111 1111011111 01011011111 0101110111 11111111111 1011110111 1011111101 1111111111 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 625 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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