This is an analysis of Sonnet 88: Out, Traitor Absence by Sir Philip Sidney.
Out, traitor Absence, darest thou counsel me
From my dear captainess to run away,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaa aaaa bbcXaac
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 11010101101 0111000101 010101111 1011110011 0111101101 1101111101 1011111101 01010110101 1101110111 110110101 1100110101 1101111101 0111111100 01010110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
