Analysis of Sonnet XXVII: Because I Oft
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Because I oft in dark abstracted guise
Seem most alone in greatest company,
With dearth of words, or answers quite awry,
To them that would make speech of speech arise,
They deem, and of their doom the rumor flies,
That poison foul of bubbling pride doth lie
So in my swelling breast that only I
Fawn on myself, and others do despise:
Yet pride I think doth not my soul possess,
Which looks too oft in his unflatt'ring glass:
But one worse fault, ambition, I confess,
That makes me oft my best friends overpass,
Unseen, unheard, while though to highest place
Bends all his powers, even unto Stella's grace.
Scheme | AXBA ABBA CDC DEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101101 1101010100 1111110101 1111111101 1101110101 11011100111 1011011101 111010101 1111111101 11110111 1111010101 111111110 0101111101 111101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 614 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 120 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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