Analysis of Sonnet XXVIII: You That With Allegory's Curious Frame
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
You that with allegory's curious frame,
Of others' children changelings use to make,
With me those pains for God's sake do not take:
I list not dig so deep for brazen fame.
When I say "Stella," I do mean the same
Princess of Beauty, for whose only sake
The reins of Love I love, though never slake,
And joy therein, though nations count it shame.
I beg no subject to use eloquence,
Nor in hid ways do guide Philosophy:
Look at my hands for no such quintessence;
But know that I in pure simplicity
Breathe out the flames which burn within my heart
Love only reading unto me this art.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111001 110101111 1111111111 1111111101 1111011101 1011011101 0111111101 0101110111 1110111100 1011110100 1111111010 1111010100 1101110111 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 114 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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