Analysis of Sonnet XIII: Phoebus Was Judge
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Phoebus was judge between Jove, Mars, and Love,
Of those three gods, whose arms the fairest were:
Jove's golden shield did eagle sables bear,
Whose talons held young Ganymede above:
But in vert field Mars bare a golden spear,
Which through a bleeding heart his point did shove:
Each had his crest; Mars carried Venus' glove,
Jove in his helm the thunderbolt did rear.
Cupid them smiles, for on his crest there lies
Stella's fair hair, her face he makes his shield,
Where roses gules are borne in silver field.
Phoebus drew wide the curtains of the skies
To blaze these last, and sware devoutly then,
The first, thus match'd, were scantly gentlemen.
Scheme | AXXA BAAB CDD CXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011101 1111110100 1101110101 110111001 1011110101 1101011111 1111110101 101101011 1011111111 1011011111 1101110101 1011010101 1111010101 011101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 3, 3 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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