This is an analysis of Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet Xxxi by Sir Philip Sidney.
With how sad steps, O Moon, thou climb'st the skies!
How silently, and with how wan a face!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbXcdcdbX
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 0111111101 1100101101 110011001001 1101001101 1011010101 1101110101 1100111101 0111011110 11001011111 0101111101 1101111110 1101100111 1101111101 11110110000
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
how, thy
