This is an analysis of Sonnet 102: Wher Be Those Roses Gone by Sir Philip Sidney.
Where be those roses gone, which sweeten'd so our eyes?
Where those red cheeks, which oft with fair increase did frame…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba abba ccX ddX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
- Metre: 101101110111 111111010101 010100010101 110101101101 100101010101 1101011110001 1111110100101 111111110101 100101110101 110101010101 110111110101 001111010011 010111010001 110101101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Anaphora
where
