Analysis of Sonnet 96: Thought, With Good Cause
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Thought, with good cause thou lik'st so well the Night,
Since kind or chance gives both one livery,
Both sadly black, both blackly darken'd be,
Night barr'd from sun, thou from thy own sunlight;
Silence in both displays his sullen might,
Slow Heaviness in both holds one degree--
That full of doubts, thou of perplexity;
Thy tears express Night's native moisture right.
In both a mazeful solitariness:
In Night of sprites the ghastly powers to stir,
In thee, or sprites or sprited ghastliness.
But, but (alas) Night's side the odds hath fur,
For that at length yet doth invite some rest,
Thou though still tir'd, yet still do'st it detest.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111101 1111111100 110111101 111111111 1001011101 11011101 1111110100 1101110101 010100100 01110101011 011111100 1101110111 1111110111 111101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 647 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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