Analysis of Sonnet 90: Stella, Think Not That I
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame,
Who seek, who hope, who love, who live but thee;
Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history:
If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.
Nor so ambitious am I, as to frame
A nest for praise in my young laurel tree:
In truth I swear, I wish not there should be
Grav'd in mine epitaph a poet's name:
Ne if I would, could I just title make,
That any laud to me thereof should grow,
Without my plumes from others' wings I take.
For nothing from my wit or will doth flow,
Since all my words thy beauty doth indite,
And Love doth hold my hand, and makes me write.
Scheme | ABBA ABBA CDC DEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011111111 1111111111 1111111100 1111110111 1101011111 0111011101 0111111111 101100101 1111111101 110111111 0111110111 1101111111 1111110101 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 611 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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