This is an analysis of Leave Me, O Love, Which Reachest But To Dust by Sir Philip Sidney.
Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust,
And thou my mind aspire to higher things:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac dedecc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,
- Metre: 1111110101 1111010101 1101110101 1101110101 1011110111 0111110100 1101110101 1111111101 1111111011 0011111101 11110100101 110101101001 1111110011 0101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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