This is an analysis of the poem Astrophel And Stella Lxxxiv: Highway that begins with:
Highway, since you my chief Parnassus be,
And that my Muse, to some ears not unsweet,... full text
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- Rhyme scheme: aXbcabbcdbdbee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Metre: 1111111100 1111011110 1001010101 1110010100 11111011 0011111111 1111110101 0111010100 01111001101 1101011101 1111111101 1111110111 0101111111 1000110111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 642
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to, nor, you are repeated.
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More information about poems by Sir Philip Sidney
- Analysis of Astrophel And Stella Vii: Whennature Made Her Chief Work
- Analysis of Astrophel And Stella: Lxxi
- Analysis of Astrophel And Stella-Eleventh Song
