Analysis of Sonnet XLI: Having This Day My Horse
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Having this day my horse, my hand, my lance
Guided so well that I obtain'd the prize,
Both by the judgment of the English eyes
And of some sent from that sweet enemy France;
Horsemen my skill in horsemanship advance,
Town folks my strength; a daintier judge applies
His praise to sleight which from good use doth rise;
Some lucky wits impute it but to chance;
Others, because of both sides I do take
My blood from them who did excel in this,
Think Nature me a man of arms did make.
How far they shot awry! The true cause is,
Stella look'd on, and from her heav'nly face
Sent forth the beams which made so fair my race.
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Metre | 1011111111 1011110101 1101010101 01111111001 1011010001 111101101 1111111111 1101011111 1001111111 1111110101 1101011111 1111010111 101101011 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 482 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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