Analysis of Sonnet 82: Nymph Of The Garden
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Nymph of the garden where all beauties be,
Beauties which do in excellency pass
His who till death look'd in a wat'ry glass,
Or hers, whom naked the Trojan boy did see;
Sweet garden nymph, which keeps the cherry tree
Whose fruit doth far th'Hesperian taste surpass;
Most sweet-fair, most fair-sweet, do not alas,
From coming near those cherries banish me:
For though full of desire, empty of wit,
Admitted late by your best-graced Grace,
I caught at one of them a hungry bit,
Pardon that fault. Once more grant me the place
And I do swear e'en by the same delight,
I will but kiss, I never more will bite.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 101101101 111110011 10110010111 1101110101 11111101 1111111101 1101110101 11110101011 010111111 1111110101 1011111101 01111110101 1111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 113 |
Sentences | 3 |
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) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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