Analysis of Sonnet VI: Some Lovers Speak
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Some lovers speak when they their Muses entertain,
Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires:
Of force of heav'nly beams, infusing hellish pain:
Of living deaths, dear wounds, fair storms, and freezing fires.
Some one his song in Jove, and Jove's strange tales attires,
Broidered with bulls and swans, powdered with golden rain;
Another humbler wit to shepherd's pipe retires,
Yet hiding royal blood full oft in rural vein.
To some a sweetest plaint a sweetest style affords,
While tears pour out his ink, and sighs breathe out his words:
His paper pale despair, and pain his pen doth move.
I can speak what I feel, and feel as much as they,
But think that all the map of my state I display,
When trembling voice brings forth that I do Stella love.
Scheme | ABAB BAXA XXX CCX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011111001 1101111111010 11111010101 1101111101010 11110101111 11101101101 0101001110101 110101110101 110101010101 111111011111 110101011111 111111011111 111101111101 1100111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 762 |
Words | 138 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 148 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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