This is an analysis of Thou Blind Man's Mark by Sir Philip Sidney.
Thou blind man's mark, thou fool's self chosen snare,
Fond fancy's scum, and dregs of scatter'd thought,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab baba bacXbcc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,7,
- Metre: 1111111101 1101110101 101101001001 1101010101 010010111101 0101011101 1111011111 1111010101 1101111101 01110101101 01110111010 1101010101 01110111010 010011101010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
of, thou, too, vain, in
Anaphora
in