Analysis of Sonnet 63: Oh Grammar Rules
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Oh grammar rules, oh now your virtues show
So children still read you with awefull eyes,
As my young dove may in your precepts wise
Her grant to me, by her own virtue know.
For late, with heart most high, with eyes most low,
I crav'd the thing which ever she denies:
She, lightning Love, displaying Venus' skies,
Lest once should not be heard, twice said, 'No, No.'
Sing then, my Muse, now Io Paean sing,
Heav'n's envy not at my high triumphing:
But grammar's force with sweet success confirm:
For grammar says (oh this, dear Stella, weigh,)
For grammar says (to grammar who says nay?)
That in one speech two negatives affirm.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111101 110111111 111110111 0111101101 1111111111 1101110101 1101010101 1111111111 1111110101 11011111 111110101 1101111101 1101110111 1011110001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 634 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 5 |
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) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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