Analysis of Sonnet 65: Love By Sure Proof
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Love by sure proof I may call thee unkind,
That giv'st no better ear to my just cries:
Thou whom to me such my good turns should bind,
As I may well recount, but none can prize:
For when, nak'd boy, thou couldst no harbor find
In this old world, grown now so too too wise,
I lodg'd thee in my heart, and being blind
Bu nature born, I gave to thee mine eyes.
Mine eyes, my light, my heart, my life alas,
If so great services may scorned be,
Yet let this thought thy tigrish courage pass:
That I perhaps am somewhat kin to thee,
Since in thine arms, if learn'd fame truth hath spread,
Thou bear'st the arrow, I the arrowhead.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 1111011111 1111111111 1111011111 11101111101 0111111111 1110110101 1101111111 1111111101 111100111 111111101 1101111111 1011111111 1110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 125 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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