Analysis of Sonnet 83: Good, Brother Philip
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Good, brother Philip, I have borne you long.
I was content you should in favor creep,
While craftily you seem'd your cut to keep,
As though that fair soft hand did you great wrong.
I bare (with envy) yet I bare your song,
When in her neck you did love ditties peep;
Nay, more fool I, oft suffer'd you to sleep
In lilies' nest, where Love's self lies along.
What, doth high place ambitious thoughts augment?
Is sauciness reward of courtesy?
Cannot such grace your silly self content,
But you must needs with those lips billing be?
And through those lips drink nectar from that tongue?
Leave that, Sir Phip, lest off your neck be wrung.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011111 1110110101 11111111 1111111111 1111011111 1001111101 1111110111 0101111101 1111010101 11011100 1011110110 1111111101 0111110111 1111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 9 |
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) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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