Analysis of Sonnet X: Reason
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Reason, in faith thou art well serv'd, that still
Wouldst brabbling be with sense and love in me:
I rather wish'd thee climb the Muses' hill,
Or reach the fruit of Nature's choicest tree,
Or seek heav'n's course, or heav'n's inside to see:
Why shouldst thou toil our thorny soil to till?
Leave sense, and those which sense's objects be:
Deal thou with powers of thoughts, leave love to will.
But thou wouldst needs fight both with love and sense,
With sword of wit, giving wounds of dispraise,
Till downright blows did foil thy cunning fence:
For soon as they strake thee with Stella's rays,
Reason thou kneel'dst, and offeredst straight to prove
By reason good, good reason her to love.
Scheme | ABAB BABA CCC XXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001111111 111110101 1101110101 1101110101 1111110111 11111010111 110111101 11110111111 1111111101 111110111 111111101 1111111101 101101111 1101110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 695 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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