Astrophel and Stella: XX

Sir Philip Sidney 1554 (Penshurst, Kent) – 1586 (Zutphen)



Fly, fly, my friends, I have my death wound, fly!
    See there that boy, that murd'ring boy, I say,
    Who, like a thief, hid in dark bush doth lie
    Till bloody bullet get him wrongful prey.
    So tyrant he no fitter place could spy,
    Nor so fair level in so secret stay,
    As that sweet black which veils the heav'nly eye;
    There himself with his shot he close doth lay.
    Poor passenger, pass now thereby I did,
  And stay'd, pleas'd with the prospect of the place,
  While that black hue from me the bad guest hid;
  But straight I saw motions of lightning grace
  And then descried the glist'ring of his dart:
  But ere I could fly thence it pierc'd my heart.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABABABCDCDEE
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 674
Words 124
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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