Analysis of Sonnet II: Not At First Sight
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Not at first sight, nor with a dribbed shot
Love gave the wound, which while I breathe will bleed;
But known worth did in mine of time proceed,
Till by degrees it had full conquest got:
I saw and liked, I liked but loved not;
I lov'd, but straight did not what Love decreed.
At length to love's decrees I, forc'd, agreed,
Yet with repining at so partial lot.
Now even that footstep of lost liberty
Is gone, and now like slave-born Muscovite
I call it praise to suffer tyranny;
And now employ the remnant of my wit
To make myself believe that all is well,
While with a feeling skill I paint my hell.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111011 1101111111 1111011101 1101111101 110111111 1111111101 1111011101 11111101 1101111100 110111110 1111110100 0101010111 111011111 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 606 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 116 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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