This is an analysis of Sonnet 6: Some Lovers Speak by Sir Philip Sidney.
Some lovers speak when they their Muses entertain,
Of hopes begot by fear, of wot not what desires:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab Xaba bbc ddc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,3,3,
- Metre: 110111110101 0101110111010 010101010101 0101111111010 11010111011100 1000111100101 0101001010101 110101110101 010101010101 111101111101 010101110111 111111111111 111101011101 1100111111101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, his, and
Anaphora
of