Analysis of Astrophel and Stella - Eleuenth Song.
Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)
Who is it that this darke night
Vnderneath my window playneth?
It is one who from thy sight
Being, ah exil'd, disdayneth
Euery other vulgar light.
Why, alas, and are you he?
Be not yet those fancies changed?
Deare, when you find change in me,
Though from me you be estranged,
Let my chaunge to ruin be.
Well, in absence this will dy;
Leaue to see, and leaue to wonder.
Absence sure will helpe, if I
Can learne how my selfe to sunder
From what in my hart doth ly.
But time will these thoughts remoue;
Time doth work what no man knoweth.
Time doth as the subiect proue;
With time still the affection groweth
In the faithful turtle-doue.
What if we new beauties see,
Will they not stir new affection?
I will thinke they pictures be,
(Image-like, of saints perfection)
Poorely counterfeting thee.
But your reasons purest light
Bids you leaue such minds to nourish.
Deere, do reason no such spite;
Neuer doth thy beauty florish
More then in my reasons sight.
But the wrongs Loue beares will make
Loue at length leaue vndertaking.
No, the more fooles it doth shake,
In a ground of so firme making
Deeper still they driue the stake.
Peace, I thinke that some giue eare;
Come no more, least I get anger.
Blisse, I will my blisse forbeare;
Fearing, sweete, you to endanger;
But my soule shall harbour there.
Well, be gone; be gone, I say,
Lest that Argus eyes perceiue you.
O vniust is Fortunes sway,
Which can make me thus to leaue you,
And from lowts to run away.
Scheme | ABABA CDCDC AEFEF XBEBA CGCGB AHAHA IIIXI EEEEX JKJKJ |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 11101 1111111 10111 110101 1010111 1111101 1111101 1111101 1111101 1010111 11101110 1011111 11111110 1101111 111111 1111111 111011 11100101 0010101 1111101 11111010 1111101 10111010 111 1110101 11111110 1110111 1011101 1101101 1011111 11111 1011111 00111110 1011101 1111111 11111110 111111 10111010 1111101 1111111 1110111 111101 11111111 0111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,436 |
Words | 276 |
Sentences | 19 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 45 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 126 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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